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2010 Yearbook
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRERECTIONSOklahoma
Department of Corrections
State of Oklahoma
2010 YearbookOklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 3
2010 Yearbook4 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 YearbookSTANDING PROUD
VISION
The Department of Corrections will create a culture that empowers individuals, encourages teamwork, employs best practices, and embraces diversity.
VALUES
Professionalism
Rehabilitation
Integrity
Diversity
Excellence
2010 Yearbook
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRERECTIONS6 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
History
MISSION STATEMENT
“The mission of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections
is to protect the public, the employees, and the offenders.”
January 10, 1967 is an important day in corrections history. It was on this date that Governor Dewey Bartlett made a historic announcement in his Legisla­tive
address, when he said:
“I have had prepared for introduction, today, a bill creating a new Department of Corrections. This bill has been prepared, after consultation with leaders of both Houses of the Legislature. It is a joint recommendation of your leadership and the administration. Briefly, this bill provides for the creation of a new state Corrections Department, consisting of a state Board of Corrections, a state director of Corrections, and three divisions: a Division of Institutions, a Division of Probation and Parole, and a Division of Inspection. The Division of Inspection will perform duties of the present Charities and Corrections Department.”Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 7
Contents
Historical Highlights.........................................................................................................................................................................6
Board of Corrections.........................................................................................................................................................................9
Special Recognition Awards.............................................................................................................................................................11
Executive Staff.................................................................................................................................................................................23
Director’s Office..........................................................................................................................................................................25 Employee Rights and Relations.............................................................................................................................................26
Executive Communications...................................................................................................................................................27
General Counsel....................................................................................................................................................................27
Internal Affairs......................................................................................................................................................................28
Administrative Services..........................................................................................................................................................29
Treatment and Rehabilitative Services....................................................................................................................................31
Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services..................................................................................................34
Field Operations....................................................................................................................................................................35 Female Offender Operations............................................................................................................................................39
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nstitutions.......................................................................................................................................................................51
O
perational Services.........................................................................................................................................................91
P
rivate Prison and Jail Administration..............................................................................................................................97
Community Corrections.....................................................................................................................................................103
Community
Work Centers.............................................................................................................................................121
Charts and Statistics......................................................................................................................................................................125
Budget Information.......................................................................................................................................................................129
Agency Directory..........................................................................................................................................................................1318 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Foreword
Welcome to a brief and partial review of history for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in the form of this 2010 Yearbook. This is a unique way to capture portions of our history now, so questions such as who was in charge of our industries program and what did it look like, can be answered in future generations. Eventually, some information in these yearbooks will be incorporated into the next edition of our history book.
For many years, our department has been nationally recognized for being one of the most efficient and effective correctional systems. This has been reinforced through comprehensive audits, legislative interim studies and a host of other reviews. This is a reflection of our dedicated professional employees’ “can do” culture and ability to overcome obstacles, and is supported by the narratives and photos contained in this yearbook. Years from now, the next generation of correctional employees can look at these reports to garner an improved understanding of progress and history. Also, because it will be on the website, anyone can access our history for research, studies, school assignments and an array of other possible usages.
A sincere thanks and a wealth of gratitude is extended to all of our employees for making 2010 another safe and productive year. Although budget reductions placed many hardships on employees, the department continued to be a national leader in relation to key quality indicators of a well-managed correctional system. Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 9
Board of Corrections
The Oklahoma Department of Cor­rections
was created by legislation in 1967, and in that legislation, the State Board of Corrections was cre­ated
to be the governing board of the Department. The legislation stated that the Board shall consist of seven members appointed by the Gover­nor
with the advice and consent of the Senate. One member shall be appointed from each congressional district and any remaining members shall be appointed from the State at-large. The term of appointment is six years and the terms are staggered. No more than four members of the Board shall be of the same political party. Vacancies on the Board are filled for the unexpired term. Board officers include Chairperson, Vice-chairperson, and Secretary, which are filled annually.
The Board normally meets monthly with the Director to review the ad­ministration
and activities of the De­partment.
The meetings are conduct­ed
in accordance with Oklahoma’s “Open Meetings Law.” In addition to tours of facilities taken in con­junction
with regular Board meet­ings,
Board members are encouraged to conduct at least one unannounced visit to a facility or district probation and parole office per year.
The power and duties of the Board include the following:
• To establish policies for the opera­tions
of the Department;
• To approve personnel matters in­cluding:
appointing and fixing the salary of the Director, confirming the appointments of wardens, dis­trict
supervisors, and other staff members as presented to the Board by the Director;
• To approve contracts and budgets including: selection of architectur­al
firms if the fee is over $200,000;
• The selection of sites for new in­stitutions
and community correc­tions
centers and approve reloca­tion
of existing facilities;
• Review and approve the proposed DOC budget before it is submit­ted
to the State Budget Office in the fall of each year;
• Review and approve emerging ex­penditures
of money that exceed the Director’s authority as allowed by law; and
• Review and approve contracts with private prisons.
Ted Logan
Chair
Matthew Hunter McBee
Vice Chair10 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Board of Corrections
Gerald W. Wright
Member
Robert L. Rainey
Member
Linda Neal
Secretary
David C. Henneke
Member
Earnest D. Ware
MemberOklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 11
SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS12 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
2010 Correctional Officer of the Year
Corporal Barker began his career with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 2006. He is a graduate of Snyder High School. He has since attended Applied Leadership and CLD classes. Once he has taken the Basic Instructor Development, he would like to help teach classes for co-workers. Corporal Barker has served as Caustic/Flammable Control Officer since 2007 and during this time he set up an efficient system for tracking/controlling supplies and organized the vehicle maintenance files to improve routine and preventive maintenance on facility vehicles. Both contributions have resulted in increased efficiency and decreased costs.
Corporal Barker communicates well with offenders, job supervisors and co-workers. He represents the agency well as he serves in the community as past president of the Chamber of Commerce, Rodeo Association, Lion’s Club and the American Legion.
Larry C. Barker
Correctional Security Officer III
Sayre Community Work Center
Northwest District Community CorrectionsOklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 13
2010 Correctional Officer Supervisor of the Year
Cory E. Ketch
Correctional Security Manager II
Mabel Bassett Correctional Center
Captain Ketch began his career with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 1998. He is a graduate of Checotah High School. His knowledge, experience, and skills in responding to critical incidents serve as an excellent example of the role of a correctional officer supervisor. He has received facility meritorious service awards for his heroic efforts and life-saving measures involving suicide attempts by mental health offenders. During his 10 years at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center, Captain Ketch’s ability to bring order and direction to chaotic situations, professionalism, integrity and effective communication skills have proven to be an asset as he works with co-workers and offenders. Captain Ketch also serves as a member of the Booster Club of Bethel High School where he assists in raising funds to provide equipment and resources for the youth in the community.14 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
2010 Probation and Parole Officer of the Year
Nathan A. Rhea, Probation and Parole Officer II, Tulsa County District Community Corrections is the Agency Probation and Parole Officer of the Year for 2010.
Officer Rhea began his career with the Department of Corrections in April 2007. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Sociology/Criminology from the University of Oklahoma in 2005. He is now working on his Graduate degree in Human Relations at the University of Oklahoma – Tulsa campus. Officer Rhea is a dependable professional who is willing to help others on his team and, as a result, is highly respected by his peers, supervisors and clients. In addition, he conducts an average of 25 discretionary home visits each month. The large number of letters in support of his nomination substantiates the proficiency he demonstrates on the job and the reputation for excellence he maintains. Officer Rhea is certified as a Self Defense Instructor and OC Instructor for the agency. He was also selected by the Drug Court Team to attend the National Drug Court Conference in June 2010. Officer Rhea volunteers in his church, is a member of the National Helping Individuals with Criminal Records reenter through Employment Network (H.I.R.E. Network), and participated in the Hurricane Ike disaster relief efforts in Galveston.
Nathan A. Rhea
Probation and Parole Officer II
Tulsa County District
Community Corrections Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 15
Outstanding Employee of the Year
Judy Brinkley is a nurse with the heart of a nurse. She volunteers her time to offer care to others in the community. She is also a wife and mom who cares for her family.
Ms. Brinkley has been the "tip of the spear" for the Department of Corrections in the de­velopment
and implementation of an electronic health record. Ms. Brinkley researched and developed work flows and templates for Department of Corrections medical pro­cesses,
and developed dozens (if not hundreds) of forms and other methods of electronic documentation. Ms. Brinkley has worked long hours providing training for users. She has then gone home at night and made improvements in the process to allow for bet­ter
ease of use. Ms. Brinkley has been available for consultation with users and has also worked closely with the vendor, encouraging a better and better product.
Judy H. Brinkley
Medical Services
Treatment and Rehabilitative Services Division16 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Professional Excellence Recipient
Rita Cooksey is a lifetime member of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, a member of Oklahoma Correctional Association and American Correctional Association. She is an active volunteer at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, providing many hours of service to the museum annually. Most impressively, Rita has established and held the "Kids At Risk Rodeo and School Supply Giveaway" for the past 15 years. Originally held in Spencer, Oklahoma, Ms. Cooksey expanded the rodeo to include the Boley area last summer, providing more than 35 children with school supplies and self confidence! Approximately 75 children were involved at the Spencer, Oklahoma location. Ms. Cooksey has been actively working for parity in the area of Female Corrections for many years and has served on various task forces to enhance this area of corrections.
Rita Cooksey is a 29-year veteran with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. She has an extensive correctional background including positions in Institutions, Probation and Parole, Training, House Arrest, Community Corrections and Administrative experi­ence.
Ms. Cooksey has faced many challenges within the department and has met each challenge with determination and a positive attitude. Over the years. Ms. Cooksey has established a network of alliances throughout state government and is able to call on them for information or assistance at a moment's notice. When Ms. Cooksey was assigned as deputy warden at John Lilley Correctional Center, the employees embraced her openness and her professional manner. She has improved the classification audits, organized job as­signments,
assisted with transition to a secretarial pool and has generally been a cheerleader for the staff as well as offenders.
Rita Cooksey
John Lilley Correctional Center
Field Operations DivisionOklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 17
Medal of Valor Recipient
Donnie R. Martin
Community Sentencing/Offender Information Services Division
August 21, 2009, at approximately 6:15 p.m., Donnie Martin was traveling south on US 75 in a State vehicle as he returned from a day of work in Tulsa to his assigned office in McAlester. He observed a vehicle in front of him, traveling in the same direction, move to the west shoulder and then into the ditch. No brake lights were noted. Donnie lost sight of the car over the crest of a hill but saw the top of a tree shake from an impact. He pulled over to the shoulder, turned on the emergency flashers, and called 911. He then proceeded to the sight of the crash. Donnie observed that a fire had started in the engine compartment of the wrecked vehicle and that the driver was still in the car. He returned to the State vehicle, retrieved the fire extinguisher, and attempted to put out the fire. The extinguisher depleted before the fire was completely out. After determining the male driver was the only occupant of the vehicle, Donnie checked the neck of the driver for a pulse and found none. He reported that information to the 911 operator and passed his phone to another person to maintain contact. Donnie then attempted to open the driver's side door but found it was jammed. Next, he tried, unsuccessfully, to pry open the door with his hands. Donnie then returned again to his vehicle to search for a tool to help with the door. Finding nothing, he went back to the wrecked car and continued attempts to open the door. Another man showed up with a digging bar, which was used to pry open the door. By this time, the inside of the car was filling with smoke. Donnie, along with the other passerby, removed the victim from the car, placing him a safe distance away. At this time, law enforcement arrived and instructed Donnie and his assistant to move the victim further from the vehicle. After doing so, Donnie left the immediate area so that CPR could be administered and he could relocate the State car to make way for emergency respondents arriving to extinguish the flames fully engulfing the wreckage and to administer further life-saving measures. Despite the efforts of employee Donnie Martin, the victim, unfortunately, died at the scene from massive injuries sustained in the crash.
While Donnie's day-to-day duties as a computer programmer are important to the agency, he does not normally encounter life-or-death situations. On an ordinary workday, happenstance placed Donnie at the scene of a crisis. At great risk to his own personal safety, he did not hesitate to attempt the rescue of a fellow citizen. Donnie maintained a clear head and did everything within his power to ensure the survival of the driver and the safety of the scene. 18 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Volunteer of the Year
John Easley, Founder
GENESIS ONE NETWORK
GENESIS ONE NETWORK, founded in 2000, is a Christian, faith-based reentry program that links an offender's personal growth and positive development while inside to the availability of resources on the outside. A spiritual transformation is essential to the successful transition from incarceration back to society.
Genesis One's chapters within DOC facilities develop individual Life-Plans for its members that encourage change and growth in the important elements of their life: Spiritual growth, vocational growth, educational growth, living skills, positive behavioral change, as well as preparing them for successful reentry. All members are required to attend weekly group accountability sessions. G-1's Life-Plan utilizes all available programs and drives up the attendance in each: faith-based programs and DOC sponsored programs.
Genesis One's outside team partners with those that can provide resources to Genesis One graduates as they are released. These resources include housing, employment, food and clothing banks, substance abuse recovery programs, legal, medical, and church/mentors. The overwhelming positive relationships with G-1 graduates have created a very receptive resource base.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 19
2010 Teacher of the Year
Phil Collins
Howard Mcleod
Correctional Center
Phil went to work for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 1984 as a Food Service Supervisor. He had worked his way through college as a food service worker, and was a full time supervisor upon graduation. His plan was to pass his probationary period, and then transfer to the education unit. Unfortunately, his plan didn’t happen any time soon. He spent seven years as a food service worker before he could even get an interview with the principal. In retrospect, those seven years grounded him in corrections.
In December of 1991, Phil transferred into the Education unit as a teacher. In the past twenty years, He have taught ABE, GED, Literacy, and facilitated College courses. He as­sessed
new receptions at the reception facility, and spent time managing the correctional library. He is currently the facility’s GED Examiner. He has fulfilled whatever role or duty was necessary to serve our students. Phil spent twenty-two years working at a men’s me­dium
security facility and the last five years at a men’s minimum security facility. He has seen corrections change from a “lock them up” mentality to a perspective that says we need to effect change while we have the opportunity because a large percentage of our clients will be returning to their communities. 20 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Oklahoma Correctional Employee Memorial Foundation (OCEMF) Memorial Service
May 5, 2010 • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1. Department of Corrections Honor Guard
2. Ann Tandy, Board President, OCEMF
3. Ron Hood, Chaplain, Northeast District Community Corrections
4. “The Missing Officer Table” originally designed by the Correctional Peace Officer Foundation (CPOF) and recreated for the memorial service, stands beside 19 wreaths for each Department of Corrections’ employee killed in the line of duty
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Leadership Academy22 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
COST OF INCARCERATION
(FY10 Actual Expenditures)
TYPE DAILY ANNUAL
Maximum $75.87 $27,693
Medium $42.41 $15,480
Minimum $40.43 $14,758
Community $41.55 $15,167
Work Centers $36.31 $13,253
Probation and Parole $2.81 $1,026
(FY11 Appropriated Budget: $462,141,777)
Lunch and Learn Diversity Series
1. OLDER AMERICAN Diversity Series
1920’s display
2. ASIAN AMERICAN Diversity Series
Ranjini Mathew, Meena Rastogi, Mercy Panicker, Reverend Dr. A. Kosby Muthalaly, Thejus Thomas, James Eyadiel, and Sam Sangaran
3. BLACK HISTORY Diversity Series
Students from the Marcus Garvey Leadership School
4. American Disability Diversity Series
Traci Prince, Director, Student Assessment Center and Program Development, Oklahoma School for the Deaf
5. HISPANIC HERITAGE Diversity Series
Annette Marzett, Kimberlee Tran, Jill Hinkston, and Faye Tucker
6. NATIVE AMERICAN Diversity Series
John Kemble, Ponca Tribe, and Kathy Davis, Ponca/Chickasaw Tribers
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Executive Staff
lead
leadership
The capacity to lead others
command
An act or instance of guiding
direction
management
guidance24 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONSEXECUTIVE STAFFOrganizational ChartEXECUTIVE ASSISTANTFIELD OPERATIONSAssociate DirectorEXECUTIVE ASSISTANTADMINISTRATIVE SERVICESDeputy DirectorCOMMUNITY CORRECTIONSDeputy DirectorCOMMUNITY SENTENCING &OFFENDER INFORMATION SERVICESDeputy DirectorTREATMENT &REHABILITATIVE SERVICESDeputy DirectorINTERNAL AFFAIRSAdministratorEMPLOYEE RIGHTS & RELATIONSAdministratorEXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONSAdministratorGENERAL COUNSEL'S OFFICEGeneral Counsel DIRECTOROklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 25
Pam Ramsey serves as Executive Assistant and is responsible for providing administrative support to the Director and ensuring the administrative day to day operations of the office, which includes communication and interaction with legislative leadership, government entities, the public, and executive and senior level personnel; handling of sensitive and confidential information; preparation of reports and correspondence; coordination of special projects and activities, and other duties to assist the Director in carrying out his responsibilities. She also serves as the liaison to the Oklahoma Board of Corrections.
The Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections is the agency’s chief executive administrator and is responsible for the overall management and administration of the agency. The position provides the leadership and vision for the agency and is appointed by the Oklahoma Board of Corrections. The Director’s Office is comprised of the Director, an Administrative Assistant and two Executive Assistants. Other positions that directly report to the Director are as follows: Associate Director of Field Operations, Associate Director of Administrative Services, Deputy of Community Corrections, Deputy Director of Treatment and Rehabilitation Services, Deputy Director of Community Sentencing, Administrator of Internal Affairs, General Counsel, Civil Rights Administrator, and Administrator of Executive Communications.
Justin Jones
Director
Pam Ramsey
Executive Assistant
Director’s Office
Executive Assistant26 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Employee Rights and Relations
Elvin Baum
Administrator
Neville Massie
Executive Assistant
Neville Massie is an Executive Assistant to the Director. Her primary responsibility is to serve as the agency’s liaison with members of the legislature, legislative staff, other governmental agency employees; as well as external civic and professional organizations.
Ms. Massie monitors legislation that may impact the department, solicits legislative initiatives from agency Executive Staff and represents the department at legislative committee meetings. She provides regular legislative status reports to the Board of Corrections, department Executive Staff and Upper Management staff.
In an effort to increase legislators knowledge and understanding of agency operations and issues, she coordinates facility tours for legislators and their staff.
Executive Assistant
The primary focus of the Employee Rights and Relations Unit (ERRU) is to serve the employees of the agency by providing technical expertise regarding the department’s affirmative action plan and assistance in adherence to employ­ment
related rules/ regulations, policies, procedures, laws, and agency practices. The unit provides training and develop­ment
to all employees and supervisors on Civil Rights rules, regulations, policy procedures and laws, aids in conflict reso­lution,
provides mediation information, and assists in resolving issues and conflict informally.
The Unit investigates formal discrimina­tion
grievances which come under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sex­ual
harassment, Americans with Disabili­ties
Act complaints, cultural diversity and other related issues. In addition, the Unit assists all facility Affirmative Action Committees with problem solving, train­ing,
current information and updates. In addition, ERRU have written articles for “Inside Corrections” pertaining to Work­place
Violence and “Stress.” By writing these articles, the unit has the opportu­nity
to keep staff informed and aware of workplace issues.
The unit consists of team members, Joyce Perry, Civil Rights Administrator I, Kim Moon, Secretary V, and Elvin Baum, Civil Rights Administrator, and is avail­able
to any staff member and/or members of the public who may have questions or in need of information pertaining to the services provided.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 27
Executive Communications
Joyce Jackson
Administrator
General Counsel
Michael T. Oakley
General Counsel
The Office of Executive Communications serves as the central point of contact for information about the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and its facilities to the media and the general public. The mission of the Office is to provide accurate, and timely information to build public support and enhance public awareness, while promoting positive change.
This office is responsible for media relations, various informational publications and reports, to include facility brochures, fact sheets and the production of the Department’s quarterly magazine, Inside Corrections. This also includes the planning and implementing of special projects and numerous training events.
The Office of Executive Communications is responsible for the Department’s historical archives, the production of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections History Book and the implementation of Leadership Academy, which is the nation’s first citizen’s academy for corrections.
This office also provides a variety of communications services to the staff as needed. The Office of Executive Communications staff is creative and proficient at problem solving and generating communications that engage and inform various audiences.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Guide for Family & Friends
• Historical documentation project from the Oklahoma State Peniten­tiary
Museum with the Oklahoma Historical department
• Establishing Twitter on the webpage
• Developing and producing the first department Yearbook
The Office of General Counsel acts as the primary liaison with the Attorney Gen­eral’s
office in matters of civil litigation when the agency or its employees are sued. The Office represents the agency at Merit Protection Commission hearings and Risk Management, oversees the sub­mission
of agency administrative rulings until finalized by the Office of Admin­istrative
Rules in the Secretary of State’s office responds to Offender Lawsuits (assigned by the Attorney General’s Of­fice),
reviews all private prison contracts, assists in gathering information for the Attorney General’s Office, reviews all for­mal
discipline action, assists employees in preparing for depositions and trial and gives legal advice to agency upper man­agement
as needed.
The Administrative Review Unit is re­sponsible
for reviewing, investigating and responding to offender misconduct and grievance appeals, which are submit­ted
to the director for final review. This review is considered to be the last step in the internal administrative process. Of­
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The Internal Affairs Investigation Unit is responsible for conducting both procedural and criminal investigations under the authority of the Director. Investigations encompass matters concerning offenders, employees and other identified criminal activity which impacts correctional operations. During CY 2010, the Investigation Unit was assigned 194 investigations and 70 preliminary Inquires. The unit completed 282 total investigations presenting 60 cases to the District Attorney of jurisdiction for the filing of criminal charges. As a result of their assignments staff also completed 33 forensic computer audits and 13 polygraphs.
The Fugitive Unit is comprised of agents dedicated to the apprehension of DOC escapees and offenders who have chosen to abscond parole supervision. Agents are also called upon to assist Probation and Parole Officers with the apprehension of offenders with a violent history as well as to assist the US Marshal’s Violent Crime Task Forces. In January 2010, the DOC lifetime fugitive list identified 85 total DOC fugitives. During CY 2010, the fugitive hotline added 173 escapes (144 escapes from community corrections, 29 from minimum security with no escapes from medium or maximum security) and 57 offenders who absconded parole. Assigned agents apprehended 119 DOC escapees and parole absconders while 112 additional fugitives were apprehended by various law enforcement agencies across the nation. The assigned agents assisted Probation and Parole Officers with the apprehension of 59 offenders and assisted the US Marshal Task Force with the apprehension of 67 fugitives. Additionally, this unit completed 19 out of state transports.
The Intelligence Unit is responsible for continuous collection, evaluation, collation and analysis of raw information into meaningful intelligence for correctional action. The Intelligence Unit also registers offenders as Security Threat Group members. To date, 1,627 offenders are registered. The unit develops on-line training available to all staff, trains at the DOC pre-service academy, produces a monthly Intelligence Bulletin and has conducted training at numerous facilities/districts as well as outside law enforcement agencies.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
In 2010, the office of Internal Affairs through the association with the International Association of Cold Case Investigators, joined with Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Oklahoma State Medical Examiner’s Office, Tulsa Police Department and the Oklahoma City Police Department to help find relatives of missing persons that have not donated DNA.
The purpose of this program is twofold; assist in identifying unidentified human remains located across the nation and to assist love ones of missing persons by attempting to collect DNA from a blood relative. These family DNA samples, referred
Internal Affairs
Johnny Blevins
Internal Affairs
fenders are required to exhaust their administrative remedies prior to fil­ing
litigation in the court system. The review conducted at both the facility and departmental level assists in preventing unnecessary litigation. Hundreds of offender letters are re­ceived
in Administrative Review every year with a response forwarded for each one received. This unit is also respon­sible
for conducting training for all staff involved in the disciplinary process, and continually conducts pre-service train­ing
in the disciplinary and grievance processes. The unit serves as a contact point for field staff, family members and legislators who have questions regarding the department's disciplinary process and grievance process.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 29
The Division of Administrative Ser­vices
consists of the following units:
• Departmental Services
- Finance and Accounting
- Evaluation and Analysis
- Building Maintenance
- Business Office/Document and Mail Services
• Information Technology
• Personnel
• Contracts and Acquisitions
• Training and Staff Development
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
PERSONNEL
20 Year Retirement
and Voluntary Buyout
July 1, 2010, marked the 20th anniversary of the agency’s Hazardous Duty (20-Year) Retirement Plan for Correctional Officers, Probation and Parole Officers, and Fugitive Apprehension Agents. A Director’s News Update was issued on June 20 reminding employees that according to Oklahoma Statute, contribution at the higher rate (8%) was for a maximum of 20 years. Following that, the employee must return to the OPERS standard contribution rate of 3.5%, which would result in a net increase to their monthly take-home pay.
Identifying affected employees proved to be a manual task, as no automated reports were available from OPERS to identify the employees to be converted each payroll period.
Staff in the central Personnel and Information Technology units spent
Administrative Services
Linda Parrish
Deputy Director
to as “Family Reference Samples” are then sent to the University of North Texas.
The University of North Texas Center for Human Identification has the responsibility to receive DNA samples from unidentified persons as well as from family members of missing persons, process those samples, and upload the DNA profiles into the National DNA Index System (NDIS). In the NDIS, profiles from missing and unidentified persons across the United States are searched against one another in an attempt to make identifications. It is important to know that DNA profiles from family members are only searched against unidentified persons in the NDIS, and are not searched against the profiles of unknown criminal suspects. If a family member resides outside the State of Oklahoma, arrangements can be made to have his/her DNA collected at a location close to home.
The family member who volunteers to have their DNA collected is re­quired
to sign a permission form. The family member will then be met by a local officer, who swabs the in­side
of their cheek; this process takes about 10 minutes. Officers then note information on the missing person. If a police report has already been taken, information about that report will be important. If no police report has been taken, officers will asked for the missing person’s full name, date of birth, tattoos, dental information, broken bones, scars, social security number and any circumstances sur­rounding
the time the person went missing. A DNA search will then be completed on all current unidenti­fied
remains as well as any unidenti­fied
remains which may be received in the future. 30 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
several months developing reports and researching time/leave and payroll records. As anticipated, the first month for conversion (July) proved to include the most employees with 75. To date, a total of 142 employees have been returned to the standard retirement contribution rate.
During calendar year 2010, the agency processed a total of 253 Voluntary Buyouts (VOBOs). The first group (Spring 2010) was funded by the department and included 60 employees. This VOBO did not require that employees be retirement-eligible; resignations were accepted for those employees who wished to participate and receive the severance benefits.
The VOBOs offered for July and December 2010 were funded by the Voluntary Buyout Reimbursement Revolving Fund authorized in HB 2363. In order to qualify for this buyout, employees had to be full-retirement eligible (with no reduced benefit) as of the VOBO date designated by the agency. This resulted in a additional 193 VOBO retirements.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Network Expansion and Improved Security
Network bandwidth expansion was completed in 2010 for all 17 institutions, all Oklahoma City locations and selected Community Corrections Centers. This expansion enabled DOC to implement or increase the use of the following applications and functions:
• Video Conferencing
• Electronic Health Records
• Remote monitoring of facilities
• On-line prescriptions
• Offender Banking System
The improvement in the network has resulted in more efficient operations, maximum utilization of personnel (medical, escort, etc.) increased use of distance learning, efficiencies in parole board hearings and savings in fuel costs.
In addition, security was improved with the implementation of encryption of laptops and flash drives. New procedures and equipment for secure access to DOC resources were put into place. The annual information security audit resulted in the best rating in the history of the audits. Information security awareness was also stressed through education, facility audits, and e-mail blasts of information security tips.
CONTRACTS AND ACQUISITIONS
On-line Posting of Solicitations
The development and implementa­tion
of the system for online posting of in-house competitive solicitations on the DOC website has had the big­gest
impact on the purchasing process during calendar year 2010. During 2010, the Contracts and Acquisitions Unit developed a standardized solici­tation
template that incorporates nec­essary
terms and conditions to ensure compliance with purchasing statutes. The template provides a standardized format for all in-house solicitations, which eliminates confusion and frustration on the part of vendors. Along with the development of the template, the contracts and Acquisi­tions
Unit also worked with the In­formation
Technology division to establish the technical requirements and process for posting all of the in-house solicitations in one location on the DOC website. This allows a centralized location for vendors to go to and see all current DOC in-house solicitations. The website also allows them to download and print the so­licitation
documents if they are in­terested
in responding to a particular solicitation. Prior to this online sys­tem
being developed, DOC Buyers would have to print and then fax or mail out the entire solicitation pack­age
to each suggested or potentially interested vendors. The new system has made the process much more ef­ficient
and eliminated direct printing and paper costs.
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICES
Accounts Payable and Auditing
Accounts Payable staff scan all vouchers and invoices into the PeopleSoft accounting system. This replaces the previous assembly system in which all vouchers and the original invoices had to be attached, folded, batched and sent to the Office of State Finance daily.
The Internal Audit Unit scheduled and conducted 60 audits during the period of July 2010 to April 2011. Audit planning and risk assessment utilizes key performance indicators Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 31
such as ratio analysis, trending and other auditing tools and techniques available to measure economy, efficiency and effectiveness of key areas of agency operations.
TRAINING AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT
Relocation of Training Academies
The Oklahoma Correctional Training academies at Wilburton and Norman were closed and relocated to the Department of Public Safety in Oklahoma City in May of 2010. Office space at DPS had to be totally renovated prior to occupancy. This was accomplished utilizing inmate labor with supervision by training staff at a nominal cost to the agency. All furniture, equipment, files, etc. were moved from Wilburton and Norman to Oklahoma City. The total move was accomplished in one month by training staff at minimal cost to the agency. The move also required a revision to training schedules in order to accommodate the limited training and dormitory space while continuing to meet the needs of the agency.
Additionally, as part of the contract with DPS, the training unit was tasked with opening and operating the kitchen/dining hall at DPS to provide meals for DOC and DPS trainees. Funds generated from these meals help defray DOC’s cost for office, classroom and dormitory space.
Classes held at the academy since the move to DPS include:
• Correctional Officer Cadet classes
• Pre-Service for non-uniformed staff
• Self Defense Instructor Development
• Probation and Parole Pre-Service
• Instructor Development for CPR and First Aid
• Basic Instructor Development/Training for Trainers
• Case Management
• Performance Management Process
The closing and relocating of the two training academies was accomplished with a significant reduction in training staff due to staff retirements during this period of time. Although 14 staff left the agency, the remaining staff continues to provide quality training programs and customer service to the agency. Reorganization is on-going and will continue in 2011 with the goal of ensuring continued development of staff and optimum class offerings.
Treatment and Rehabilitative Services
The Division of Treatment and Re­habilitative
Services is responsible for the provision of medical and mental health services for all offenders incar­cerated
in the Department of Cor­rections.
Medical and mental health staff is assigned to all facilities to en­sure
appropriate access to these ser­vices.
The Division maintains four infirmaries and three mental health units.
The Programs Unit oversees all of­fender
programs to include drug and alcohol treatment and adult educational services. Educational services include literacy, adult ba­sic
education, GED, and college courses. Drug and alcohol treat­ment
programs include cooperative agreements with the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, as well as RSAT programs funded by grants through the Dis­trict
Attorney’s Council. Career and Technical training programs allow offenders the opportunity to acquire
Deputy Director
Kenny Holloway32 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
work skills and Reentry programs focus on the offender’s employment, housing, treatment aftercare, and other services vital to successful re­turn
to the community.
Religious and Volunteer services pro­vides
oversight and coordination of the many volunteers who provide religious and program services to the offender population. These volun­teers
form a critical partnership with the Department of Corrections pro­viding
thousands of hours of support each month. The Victim Services unit is committed to assisting vic­tims
of crime by providing informa­tion
related to the custody and status of offenders who are incarcerated or under the supervision of the agency.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
DOC continues to experience dra­matic
increases in numbers and acu­ity
levels of incarcerated mentally ill persons. To address these increases with reduced resources, DOC men­tal
health services have implemented the following:
• The DOC and DMHSAS have partnered in innovative ways to re­duce
high recidivism rates of seri­ously
mentally ill offenders. The two agencies have entered into a data sharing agreement that is the first of its kind in the nation. This agree­ment
provides the efficient sharing of clinical information to facilitate cost-effective continuity of care. In addition, DMHSAS has entered into an agreement wherein DMH­SAS
discharge case managers are of­ficed
on DOC mental health units and serve as integral members of the reentry treatment teams. DMHSAS has also contracted evidence-based services from community mental health centers that provide connec­tion
and transition services to dis­charging
mentally ill offenders.
• The DOC has sustained and improved two innovative projects that were approved and federally funded by the Governor’s Transformation Board in FY10. The Correctional Crisis Resolution Training Program has successfully trained over 120 facility and community correctional officers in methods needed to deescalate crisis situations with mentally ill offenders. This program will be expanded to include key upper management professionals as well as line officer from facilities and community corrections. The Peer Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 33
Recovery Support Specialist Pilot Program trained offenders within facilities to serve as role models of successful recovery and as support for offenders at a time when staff are not in the facility.
Through collaborative efforts with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, interventions and discharge planning for offenders with serious mental ill­ness
has helped to reduce the return rate of this offender population from 41.8% for FY06 discharges to 36.6% for FY07 discharges.
The Oklahoma Department of Cor­rections
was awarded $750,000 from the US Department of Justice, Bu­reau
of Justice Assistance’s Second Chance Act State Demonstration Program for Secure Approaches to Effective Reentry (SAFER) Okla­homa
to create a transitional reentry program for high risk male offenders returning to Oklahoma County. The program has served over 100 offend­ers
since April 1, 2010. The pro­gram
addresses cognitive restructur­ing
needs, life skill development and requires offenders to participate in a victim impact class. Offenders have the opportunity to address substance abuse needs and acquire vocational skills through Career Tech Programs. Services are also available in the com­munity
to ensure a smooth transition following release from incarceration.
The Department operates a fully ac­credited
high school within the Okla­homa
prison system. Despite budget and staff reductions, 2,371 offend­ers
participated in GED prep classes and 1,028 received their GED. Also during FY10, 2,454 offenders partic­ipated
in Literacy classes and 2,503 offenders participated in ABE classes.
The DOC continues to operate three Faith and Character Community programs at Oklahoma State Refor­matory,
Mabel Bassett Correctional Center and Dick Conner Correc­tional
Center. During fiscal year 2010, 270 long-term offenders suc­cessfully
completed the program.
The Department of Corrections’ Pro­grams
Unit designed a web-based reentry resource guide to assist case management staff in developing pre-release plans for offenders. The re­source
guide contains active links to resources and forms that assist of­fenders
in accessing services in the community. The resource guide can be accessed at: http://www.doc.state.ok.us/newsroom/publications/Reen­try_
Resource_Guide.pdf
The web-based program participa­tion
tracking database is a real time, online application developed by Pro­grams
Unit staff to gather statewide programmatic attendance informa­tion.
The application tracks offender programmatic activities, including type of program, start and end dates, and the manner in which an offender terminates a program. Attendance data is validated through the Offend­er
Management System (OMS). Pro­grammatic
data is shared throughout the agency and is used for a myriad of analysis and information sharing purposes, including survival analysis, program effectiveness, real time re­ports,
outcome measures, grant deci­sions
for program placement, depart­ment
and facility profile reports, and much more. To date, over 130 staff responsible for reporting program­matic
data have been trained on this application statewide. Oklahoma DOC tends to set the standard na­tionally
in correctional best practices and is the ONLY Correctional Agen­cy
utilizing a real time, web-based application for program attendance tracking.
The electronic health records system was fully implemented at all Depart­ment
of Corrections medical units. This program allows each offender’s medical records to be entered and monitored electronically. The system interfaces with the agency’s pharma­cy
vendor, allowing all prescription medications to be ordered electroni­cally.
The most recent component released is an interface with Diag­nostic
Laboratories of Oklahoma. This allows not only for the lab to be ordered electronically, but for the re­sults
to be reported back to the clini­cian
via the electronic health record system. This system has resulted in improved efficiencies of medical staff.
Collaboration continues with the Oklahoma Health Care Author­ity
to contain the health care costs of offenders admitted to non-DOC hospitals. This allows for the maxi­mizing
of state resources by drawing down federal dollars for inmates who were admitted to the hospital. Since this project was implemented, the savings realized to the state have ex­ceeded
$5 million.34 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
The Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services Division administers the provisions of the Oklahoma Community Sentencing Act (22 O.S. §988.1-.24). Positioned between probation and prison on the criminal justice continuum, Community Sentencing provides the courts an innovative punishment option for non-violent offenders. Assessment, supervision, and treatment are combined in a manner that directly confronts criminal behavior and protects public safety.
In each county, a planning council, a group of citizens and elected officials specified by law or appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district, plans the local Community Sentencing system and with the assistance of the Community Sentencing Division locates treatment providers and resources to support the local system. The partnerships among the Department of Corrections, the local Community Sentencing systems, and the contractors providing services for participating offenders characterize this “¢ents-able” community punishment sentencing option.
The division is also responsible for the development and maintenance of COMIT, the offender information management software supporting case planning linked to identification of criminogenic needs, the Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN), and a web based vouchering system for offender treatment services. In March 2010, Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services assumed responsibility for the grants administration unit.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Community Sentencing reached a milestone of 10 years of statewide operation.
• The Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN) system was enhanced to provide notification regarding the status and location of offenders under community supervision.
• The grants administration unit successfully pursued continuation funding for all 2009 grants as well as for two new awards. Under the 2010 Second Chance Act Demonstration grant, a pilot reentry program was funded. The SMART Adam Walsh Act Implementation grant provided digital fingerprint equipment in probation offices for the registration of violent and sex offenders.
Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services
Deputy Director
Sharon Neumann
Highlights
On February 22, 2010, production of the movie “Heaven’s Rain” began at OSP. This is a film on former Senator Brooks Douglas in relation to his family’s disaster many years ago.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 35
Field Operations36 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONSFIELD OPERATIONSOrganizational ChartDIVISIONS OF INSTITUTIONSDeputy DirectorSAFETY ADMINISTRATIONAdministratorOPERATIONAL SERVICESChiefPRIVATE PRISON & JAIL ADMINISTRATIONAdministratorFEMALE OFFENDER OPERATIONSDeputy DirectorPROCEDURES & ACCREDITATIONAdministrator ASSOCIATE DIRECTOROklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 37
The Division of Field Operations is comprised of Female Offender Opera­tions,
Institutions, Operational Services, Private Prisons and Jail Administration, Procedures and Accreditation, Safety Administration, and Dietary Services.
These entities provide direct supervi­sion
of all agency institutions, to in­clude
both male and female offenders at minimum, medium, and maximum security, and death row, as well as female offenders under community corrections supervision; three contract private pris­ons
housing Oklahoma male offenders and oversight of the remaining three pri­vate
prisons which contract for out-of-state offenders; in addition to offenders in contract county jail programs. The division also oversees classification and population, Central Transportation Unit (CTU), sentence administration and of­fender
records, sex offender registration, Agri-Services, Oklahoma Correctional Industries, and construction and main­tenance.
Field Operations Administrative staff work closely with members of the leg­islature
and their staff, other state agen­cies
and law enforcement entities, as well as members of the public to respond to questions and provide information on agency-related matters and offender spe­cific
concerns.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The Field Operations Division strives to provide effective leadership and oversight to all of the divisions and units under its purview. Numerous division achievements will be highlighted within these entity’s accomplishments.
Two Field Operations division staff were tasked with conducting Facility Compliance Reviews of all minimum, medium and maximum security facilities, as well as Female Offender Community Corrections Centers. These reviews were commissioned by the Associate Director and designed in an effort to look at not only critical facility operations, but also routine matters in an ongoing challenge to ensure compliance with statutes, policies, and procedures. Several best practices were identified that have been shared across facilities. The first round of compliance visits was completed in late 2010, and the second round is currently underway.
At the request of the Associate Director, a new business plan was developed that will, in effect, redefine the mission of the Agri-Services Unit. One of the components of the business plan is to process garden vegetables in a more efficient manner. Prior to the business plan, for example, Howard McLeod Correctional Center grew a substantial amount of potatoes that were utilized by the facility and shared among the other facilities. This operation contained one obstacle that was unavoidable by the old process; there was a significant amount of spoilage of the potatoes due to the large quantity being harvested in a short time period. In the new business plan, the unit’s focus will be on growing the amount of vegetables required to feed the offender population, and distributed as needed.
Field Operations
Edward Evans
Associate Director
Field Operations38 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
SOLUTIONS INITIATIVE SUMMIT
INCARCERATION OF OKLAHOMA WOMEN
Oklahoma City • April 30, 2010
1. Christie Tutt, TEEM, Tony Zahn, The Education & Employment Ministry, Drew Edmondson, Attorney General, Roland Watts, TEEM
2. Peggy Thompson, Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women, and Patricia Presley, Oklahoma County Court Clerk
3. Jari Askins, Lieutenant Governor
4. Mary Fallin, U.S. Congress
5. Dr. Rebecca Kennedy, Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women
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6. Felicia Collins-Corriea, CEO, YWCA, Tulsa
7. Sheila Harbert, Girl Scouts Beyond Bars, Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma
8. Mary Walker, Chair, Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women
9. Joy Thomas, Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, and Yolanda Galloway, female panelist representing Project M.E.N.D.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 39
Female Offender Operations40 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONSFEMALE OFFENDER OPERATIONSOrganizational ChartEDDIE WARRIOR CORRECTIONAL CENTERWardenHillside Community Corrections CenterDistrict SupervisorKate Barnard Community Corrections CenterDistrict SupervisorAltus Community Work CenterDistrict SupervisorFEMALE OFFENDER COMMUNITYCORRECTIONS & RESIDENTIAL SERVICESMABEL BASSETT CORRECTIONAL CENTERWardenRELIGIOUS ANDVOLUNTEER SERVICESAdministrator DEPUTY DIRECTOROklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 41
Laura J. Pitman, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
Female Offender Operations
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections established the Division of Female Offender Operations in December 2008. This division faces a unique challenge. While the division is responsible for all operational issues associated with the oversight of female offenders from reception through reentry at two correctional centers, two community corrections centers, one community work center, and two contract residential centers, the division also has a parallel mission. The division’s parallel mission is to “Reduce Oklahoma’s female incarceration rate to at, or below, the national average while protecting the public, the employees, and the offenders.”
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• The division continued its efforts on educating stakeholders through partnerships with other external organizations including the George Kaiser Family foundation, Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women, and the Oklahoma Women’s Coalition. Events such as the Complex Dialogues Summit in January 2010, the incarceration of Oklahoma women Solutions Initiative Summit in April 2010, Oklahoma Bar Association 2010 Annual Meeting, the series of five (5) Summer 2010 Judicial Regional Workshops entitled, “Children Are Why We Are Here,” and countless other presentations focused on driving positive change in policy in order to address the challenge of 42 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
women’s incarceration. Through the division’s collaborative efforts with other stakeholders, the department has received and renewed several grants to assist with the division’s mission.
• House Bill 2998, authored by Representative Kris Steele, was passed into law during Fiscal Year 2010. The legislation creates pilot programs, funded by private donations and state funds, to provide diversion and reentry programs to allow non-violent parents to receive community-based services.
• On August 18, 2010, a chapel dedication ceremony was held at the Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center. The chapel was the first to be constructed at Oklahoma state prisons by World Mission Builders, a non-profit ministry that has built churches around the world since 1980. The chapel was built in 118 days utilizing private money and labor. More than 40 volunteers from six states camped outside the facility to work on the project. The chapel has 4,800 square feet with a 175-seat auditorium, a baptistery, three classrooms, two offices and a library.
• On June 30, 2010, Back Office Support Systems (B.O.S.S.), under a contract with OCI, opened a telemarketing operation at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center. B.O.S.S. is headquartered in Michigan and operates under the Private Industry Enhancement (PIE) program. B.O.S.S. started operations with one shift of 16 offender employees.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 43
Eddie Warrior Correctional Center
Warden
Mike Mullin
Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Cen­ter
(EWCC) is on the original site of the Indian Mission School Haloche Industrial Institute in Taft, Okla­homa.
In 1909, Stephen Douglas Russell founded the Deaf, Blind, and Orphan Institute (DB&O) which housed deaf, blind, and orphaned children. From 1909 until 1961, the DB&O Institute was self-sufficient. The state operated children’s homes under many different names until May of 1986 when legislative action transferred the facility to the Depart­ment
of Corrections. The facility be­came
the George Nigh Staff Devel­opment
Center handling the depart­ment’s
pre-service and in-service staff training. During the 1988 special legislative session, called to address prison overcrowding, the center was designated as a minimum security prison for female offenders.
EWCC is named after Dr. Eddie Walter Warrior, business manager for the DB&O Institute.
EWCC houses minimum-security fe­male
offenders. The facility is divided into two general population units and the Regimented Treatment Program (RTP), a 12-month military-style program with substance abuse and domestic violence components added to address addiction and family vio­lence
issues. The RTP unit is housed in one of the original buildings built for the DB&O Institute in 1909.
The Helping Women Recover program is a 60-bed, gender-specific program designed to meet the treatment needs of female offenders who are addicted to alcohol or drugs. The program is funded through private grant funds and, in its current form, has been in operation since October 2009. The program offers trauma informed substance abuse treatment, early childhood development classes, domestic violence classes, cognitive restructuring, anger management and relapse prevention. The program utilizes a combination of full and part-time licensed therapists who provide 11 hours of weekly group
Opened: 1988
Location: Taft
Capacity: 783
Gender: Female
Security: Minimum44 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 45
Pictured at left: The building of a new prison chapel located at Eddie Warrior Correctional Center at the halfway mark.
Right: An offender at the Eddie Warrior Correctional Center working on leather crafts.
therapy along with individual therapy and treatment.
In January 2010, the department contracted with the University of Cincinnati to evaluate the program using Evidence Based Correctional Program Checklist (CPC). The objective of the assessment is to conduct a detailed review of programming and services offered to offenders and to compare the practices with the research literature on best practices in corrections. The Helping Women Recover program was the first gender-specific program in the country to rate in the “highly effective category” in a correctional setting. To date, approximately 200 offenders have successfully completed the program.
EDDIE WARRIOR
Eddie Warrior was appointed business manager for the Deaf, Blind, and Orphan Institute by Governor Roy Turner. Warrior was later promoted to principal and subsequently to superintendent of the Taft School System in 1961. The E. W. Warrior Junior High School was dedicated in his honor in 1979. He retired in February, 1979, after 18 years of service. He died in June, 1979. 46 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Mabel Bassett Correctional Center
Warden
Millicent Newton-Embry
Opened: 1974
Location: McLoud
Capacity: 1,136
Gender: Female
Security: Minimum/Medium/Maximum
The Mabel Bassett Correctional Center is the only maximum secu­rity
institution for women in the state of Oklahoma. The center was originally located in northeast Oklahoma City, adjacent to the Department of Corrections Ad­ministration
Building. Opened as a community treatment center in January 1974, the center was changed to a medium security facility in 1978. In 1982, Mabel Bassett was converted to include maximum security. Offenders assigned to Mabel Bassett range from minimum security to Death Row.
Additionally, Mabel Bassett Cor­rectional
Center supervises the security of all Department of Cor­rections
offenders requiring hospi­talization,
through an agency con­tract
with the OU Medical Center. The unit also supervises the hold­ing
area where offenders from all Department of Corrections facili­ties
are held awaiting medical ap­pointments
at the Medical Center.
Mabel Bassett Correctional Cen­ter
houses the Assessment and Reception Center for females incarcerated in the state of Okla­homa.
Mabel Bassett Assessment and Reception Center (MBARC) is a maximum security unit that receives females sentenced to prison by the courts. During the reception period that ranges from approximately ten to thirty days, staff determines, through various Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 47
assessments, which Department of Cor­rections
facility the offender will be as­signed
to and what program criteria they meet.
In 2009, Mabel Bassett Correctional Center entered into a collaborative ef­fort
with the VERA Institute of Justice, New York, in its Family Justice Project, an initiative to develop tools to improve family and social networks, community involvement, and government resources relative to successful re-entry.
Relational inquiry tools were developed through offender interviews and admin­istrative
staff work groups which were implemented by case management staff in 2010.
In November 2010, Margaret diZerega, Family Justice Director of Training and Technical Assistance, and Lily Brent, Family Justice Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator, conducted fol­low-
up interviews and distributed a sur­vey
to approximately 150 offenders, as well as provided updated training to staff in the use of the relational inquiry tools.
MABEL BASSETT
Mabel Bassett served as the third Commissioner of Charities and Corrections. She was a reformer and a diligent lobbyist like her predecessor, Kate Barnard. During her tenure, Ms. Bassett worked to establish and maintain standards for juvenile and adult correc­tional
facilities, and also the state’s mental institutions. She was responsible for establishing the State Pardon and Parole Board in 1944 in an effort to create a more equitable system for offenders to be reviewed for a pardon, leave, or parole. She was also involved in building the facility that once housed women at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary with funds raised through legislative appropriation. Among her other accomplishments, Ms. Bassett fought for the statute, enacted by the Eighth Okla­homa
Legislature, making wife and child desertion a felony. She was also responsible for the Industrial School for Negro Boys at Boley, Oklahoma, which is known today as the John Lilley Correctional Center. The Club Women of Oklahoma recog­nized
her by appointing her to the State Federation of Women’s Clubs. For her outstanding services for the betterment of man­kind,
she was inducted into Oklahoma’s “Hall of Fame” by the Oklahoma Memorial Association on Statehood Day (Novem­ber
16) in 1937.
Highlights
The incarceration of Oklahoma Women Solutions Initiative Summit (Oklahoma SIS) was held April 30, 2010. The summit, sponsored by the Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women, Oklahoma Women’s Coalition, and Oklahoma Department of Corrections provided state leaders, lawmakers, and citizens from across the state the opportunity to come together for the purpose of identifying solutions related to the incarceration of women in Oklahoma.48 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
The Hillside Community Correc­tions
Center was originally opened as the Mabel Bassett Community Treatment Center in January, 1974 and changed to a medium security facility in 1978. In 1982, the center was converted to include maximum security offenders.
On May 1, 2003, the Mabel Bas­sett
Correctional Center relocated to the former private prison facility in McLoud, Oklahoma. The former facility was then converted to the Hillside Community Corrections Center.
Project Mend is a Girl Scouts of America program designed to help strengthen the parent-child rela­tionship
by bringing offenders and their daughters and sons, ages 5 to 17, together to participate in troop projects. Strengthening this bond also reduces recidivism rates. The program encourages the pairs to bond physically and emotionally over crafts, singing and other activi­ties.
The mothers will also attend parenting classes and planning ses­sions
to organize activities for their daughters. The program also en­courages
the girls and their mothers to discuss issues such as drug abuse and teen pregnancy.
Hillside Community Corrections Center
Opened: 2003
Location: Oklahoma City
Capacity: 249
Gender: Female
Security: Community
District Supervisor
Sharon Harrison
Female Offender Community Corrections
and Residential ServicesOklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 49
The Kate Barnard Community Treatment Center was opened in June, 1977. The center is housed in a former motel located in northwest Oklahoma City. The facility is a u-shaped two story building which houses the residents and staff. Food service is located in front of the main building, with the maintenance shop and storage area located be­hind
the main building.
KBCCC provides offenders with an opportunity to seek, obtain and maintain employment in the community prior to release through the work release.
The 80+ percent of incarcerated women who have been victim­ized
by domestic violence and/or sexual assault prior to incar­ceration
presents a great need for knowledge, empowerment, and safety planning that the YWCA Oklahoma City’s Do­mestic
Violence for incarcerated Women’s program fulfills. The nine-week program prepares of­fenders
to reenter the commu­nity
to live safe, successful, and fulfilling lives for themselves and their children. The pro­gram
served 631 incarcerated women in three facilities during 2010.
Kate Barnard Community Corrections Center
Opened: 1977
Location: Oklahoma City
Capacity: 160
Gender: Female
Security: Community
District Supervisor
Sharon Harrison
Female Offender Community Corrections
and Residential Services
Kate Barnard
Kate Barnard was a key figure in the history of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. She was elected the first Commissioner of the Department of Charities and Corrections during a time that women were not allowed to vote in Oklahoma. Ms. Barnard, concerned about numerous complaints regarding the treatment of Oklahoma offenders, made an unannounced visit to Lansing, Kansas. Upon her return to Oklahoma, Ms. Barnard set out to terminate the contract for prison services with the state of Kansas and started an effort to build the first Oklahoma prison. From the time of her election in 1907 until the end of her two terms of office in 1915, Ms. Barnard got 30 statutory laws passed through the Oklahoma Legislature, a record that few legislators could boast about or compete with even today. 50 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Altus Community Work Center
FACILITY
OPENED
LOCATION
CAPACITY
GENDER
SECURITY
Altus
1993
308 W. Broadway
Altus, OK 73521
68
Female
Community
1. Renee Watkins, Administrator, Private Prison and Jail Administration
2. Brian Thornburgh, District Supervisor, Southwest District Community Corrections
3. J.C. Watts, Former U.S. Congressman
4. Terry Martin, Deputy Warden, Jess Dunn Correctional Center, Chairman Fundraising
5. Kristin Timms, Assistant District Supervisor, Union City CCC, and Phil Gilstrap, Deputy Warden, Joseph Harp CC
6. Leo Brown, Religious and Volunteer Services
7. Kevin Murphy, Executive Secretary, USDWA, Arkansas
8. Larry Lipscomb, Associate Warden, Jill Durskey, Deputy Warden, and Charles Higgins, Deputy Warden (R), Iowa Department of Corrections.
United States Deputy Warden Association (USDWA) Annual Conference 2010
Sheraton Hotel • Oklahoma City • August 8-13, 2010
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Institutions52 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONSDIVISION OF INSTITUTIONSOrganizational ChartCHARLES E. "BILL" JOHNSON CCWardenHOWARD MCLEOD CCWardenJACKIE BRANNON CCWardenJAMES CRABTREE CCWardenJESS DUNN CCWardenJIM E. HAMILTON CCWardenJOHN H. LILLEY CCWardenJOSEPH HARP CCWardenRECEPTION CENTERLEXINGTON ASSESSMENT &WardenMACK ALFORD CCWardenNORTHEAST OKLAHOMA CCWardenOKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARYWardenOKLAHOMA STATE REFORMATORYWardenR.B. "DICK" CONNER CCWardenWILLIAM S. KEY CCWardenDEPUTY DIRECTOROklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 53
The Division of Institutions provides oversight, direction, and supervision to the fifteen state operated male facilities housing minimum, medium, and maximum security offenders.
The division is responsible for ensuring that the facilities under its jurisdiction meet the agency mission of protecting the public, the employees, and the offenders by providing a safe, secure, and healthy environment in which to work and live.
This office provides oversight of fiscal management and ensures facilities effectively manage their budgets.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• A new water tower was completed at Mack Alford Correctional Center improving the fire protection capability and water pressure at that medium security facility.
• Security camera systems were completed at Oklahoma State Reformatory and Mack Alford Correctional Center. These systems have improved security monitoring at both facilities. These systems contain a large amount of video storage that is useful for investigatory purposes.
• An assessment of the vehicle fleets within the Division of Institutions was conducted. Authorized vehicle numbers were reduced by a total of seventy-one.
Institutions
Deputy Director
Bobby Boone54 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Opened: 1995
Location: Alva
Capacity: 566
Gender: Male
Security: Minimum
Warden
Janice Melton
Charles E. “Bill” Johnson Correctional Center
The Charles E. “Bill” Johnson Correctional Center (BJCC) is the newest of the 17 facilities operated by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. the facility houses 550 male, felon drug offenders, ages 18-40. The minimum-security facility consists of six metal buildings, four modular buildings, a brick building inside the compound and seven buildings to include maintenance, warehouse, auto mechanics,wellness center, storage,work crew tool area, sawmill, greenhouse and a single-story dormitory under construction outside the perimeter fence. Inside the compound are the administrative offices, medical facilities, a dining hall, the education building, laundry, four program buildings, three housing units and a chapel. On September 5, 1995, the facility received the first trainee for the Regimented Treatment Program.
In 2010, the facility was given the news that it would be expanding. The CareerTech Skills Center and the multi-purpose building were closed to begin the renovations of the building into housing units.
DELAYED INCARCERATION PROGRAM
In August 2004, BJCC established 50 beds for eligible first time youthful offenders sentenced to Delayed Incar­ceration
Program. In March 2010, the count rose to approximately 220 offenders. The delayed incarceration program is to provide youthful of­fenders
the tools to lead a successful life in society and to introduce pro-social behaviors and attitudes that may enhance their ability to have positive relationships in their lives. Trainees are given assessments to determine placement into specific groups. The groups that are facilitated by drug and alcohol counselors are: Cage Your Rage, Life Without a Crutch, Commitment to Change, Thinking for a Change, Moral Reconation Therapy, Cognitive Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 55
Behavioral Relapse Prevention, Straight Ahead, and Reentry.
REGIMENTED TREATMENT
PROGRAM (RTP)
The primary mission of BJCC is RTP. Due to the program design as a high structure unit, BJCC was built with medium security standards with double-razor wire fencing. The RTP consists of three phases beginning with 9 weeks of high structure treatment. The follow­ing
6-9 months include participation in Therapeutic community (TC), cognitive and behavioral counseling, education, substance abuse treatment, and reentry programs in addition to public work projects. Public works projects include Department of Transportation crews and several other city, county, and state projects. Aftercare is provided for one year to RTP graduates upon discharge or release to suspended sentence or parole.
THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
The TC is highly structured program of behavior modification. The trainees of each floor make up a “family” with a hierarchical system. The hierarchy in a TC provides operational structure. The structure of a TC is similar to that of a small town. The civic type structure improves accountability and more ef­fectively
addresses tasks. The offenders, working under the supervision of staff, operate the TC.
Trainees are accountable for monitoring their behaviors as well as the behavior of family members in respect to family, unit, facility, and department rules. Issues of accountability are correlated to issues of similar nature that could occur outside the facility.
REENTRY
Trainees nearing the completion of this phase of the program begin attending reentry programming designed to focus their attention to the demands of reen­tering
society.
Before a program completion is award­ed,
the trainee must complete an exit in­terview
and have an approved discharge summary/reentry plan.
MEDICAL SERVICES
BJCC is staffed with a medical team which provides 24 hour nursing care to the facility. A psychological clinician proves mental health services as a clinical oversight for the cognitive and substance abuse programs. Dental and additional psychiatric and acute care medical ser­vices
are presently provided by neighbor­ing
correctional facilities.
EDUCATION
All trainees at BJCC who have not completed their secondary education are required to attend education class­es.
Trainees can obtain certification in Literacy and Adult Basic Education as well as a General Equivalency Diploma. College courses are available through NWOSU, located in Alva.56 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
CHARLES E. “BILL”
JOHNSON
Charles E. “Bill” Johnson, for whom the facility is named, was a catalyst in the pursuit of the correctional center designed to impact drug offenders. When he learned about the possibility of such a program being placed in a community in Oklahoma, Mr. Johnson recruited his friends and business associates to help in the pursuit of making the facility a re­ality.
Unfortunately, Mr. Johnson died on February 18, 1995, at the age of 66, and was unable to see the completion of the facility he had worked so hard and faithfully to bring to his hometown.
FOOD SERVICE
An integral part of BJCC’s support ser­vices
is the Food Service Unit which pre­pares
three meals per day and food for special events. With cooperation from the U.S. Department of Labor, BJCC food service staff created an apprentice­ship
program that enables selected train­ees
who complete the program to earn journeyman’s status in the culinary arts.
RELIGIOUS AND VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
Volunteers are an important part of the RTP and are a valuable resource in pro­viding
necessary and court-ordered ser­vices
to offenders. Approximately 100 volunteers bring valuable experience to this facility enabling BJCC to better assist offenders return to a productive, drug free life.
DELAYED SENTENCING PROGRAM
In August 2004, BJCC established 50 beds for youthful offenders sentenced to the Delayed Sentencing Program as overflow for the WSKCC program. In March 2010, BJCC’s mission was expanded to include housing the entire Delayed Sentencing Program for the agency which increased the program to approximately 250 delayed incearcerates.
The program receives funding from the Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) which is administered through the D.A. Council and is currently staffed with four alcohol/drug counselors with a fifth counselor soon to be added. The delayed sentencing program provides young offenders aged 18-22 the tools to lead a successful life in society and to introduce pro-social behaviors and attitudes that may enhance their ability to have positive relationships in thei rlives. The delayed incarcerates are given assessments to determine placement into specific groups. The groups that are facilited by drug and alcohol counselors are: Cage Your Rage, Life Without a Crutch, Commitment to Change, Thinking for a Change, Cognitive Behavior and Substance Abuse counseling, Straight Ahead, Parterners in Parenting, and Re-entry.
Highlights
1940 The McAlester News-Capital makes the first announcement of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary’s First Annual Rodeo, advertised as the biggest “behind the walls” rodeo in the world, scheduled to be held October 12-13, 1940.
1972 The use of the automation to process information for the Department of Corrections began in 1972. The first application was a simple listing of inmates.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 57
Dick Conner Correctional Center
Opened: 1979
Location: Hominy
Capacity: 1,196
Gender: Male
Security: Medium
Warden
Greg Province
The post-OSP riot master plan included a medium security facility to be constructed in the Tulsa area. It was eventually decided that the facility would be built just north of Hominy, Oklahoma, within the boundaries of the original Osage Indian Reservation. Originally, the facility was to be named the “Hominy Medium Security Facility.” It was next decided that the facility would be named Jess Dunn Correctional Center in honor of the former OSP warden killed in an escape attempt. However, a 1977 Joint Senate-House Resolution renamed the facility, for the third and final time, the Dick Conner Correctional Center. The facility’s namesake is R. B. “Dick” Conner, a former local Sheriff of Osage County and former OSP warden. The facility was built for $12.8 million. Dick Conner Correctional Center received its first offenders in August, 1979, and reached its original design capacity of 400 during the spring of 1980.
OFFENDER WORK PROGRAM
Dick Conner Correctional Center provides job opportunities for both medium and minimum-security offenders. A significant amount of the minimum-security offenders are assigned to the Prisoner Public Work Program crews.
ACADEMIC AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
Education programming at Dick Conner Correctional Center consists of an education system that begins with basic literacy through Adult Basic Education. This program then progresses to a GED program with the availability of college courses with grants, GI bill, youthful offenders, Native American, or self-pay offenders. All offenders lacking a diploma upon arrival are tested 58 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
for a Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE). Vocational training is not currently available for the offender population.
ACADEMIC PROGRAMMING
Adult Basic Education (ABE) and General Education Development (GED) classes are provided at the Dick Conner Correctional Center. The DCCC education department has a success rate on the State GED Test that has exceeded 92% for the last three (3) years. The ABE/GED programs serve approximately 550 offenders per year.
LITERACY TUTOR TRAINING
Dick Conner Correctional Center (DCCC) has recognized, and is committed to, the plight of the illiterate offender. Emphasis has been placed on recruitment and training of tutors. These tutors teach pre - Adult Basic Education (pre-ABE), the Laubach Way to Reading, and provide supplemental tutoring for General Educational Development students with problems in specific areas. Laubach Tutor Training certifies and enhances our literacy training at DCCC.
POST SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Post-secondary educational opportuni­ties
for offenders at DCCC are avail­able
from recognized post-secondary schools for students who have a high school diploma or GED. The educa­tion
counselor provides administrative service such as monitoring for testing and videotape availability. Grants are available for offenders who qualify.
THINKING FOR A CHANGE
• A cognitive behavioral theory model
• Cognitive restructuring concepts require a systematic approach to identifying thinking, feeling, beliefs, attitudes, values and targets critical social skills.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT (SAT)
A program designed to assist the offender with relapse prevention and substance abuse issues
Alcoholics Anonymous
A 12-step, self-help group for addressing alcohol addiction
Narcotic Anonymous
A 12-step, self-help group for offenders with drug addiction problems
Curriculum Instructional Materials Center (CIMC) Basic Life Skills
A program designed for individuals and families with limited resources and low educational attainment who desire basic information about managing money and other resources
Additional Classes
• Life Skills
• STD/HIV Classes
•Faith Based Reintegration Programming
Individualized treatment and program needs are determined by the offender’s case plan.
OKLAHOMA CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES (OCI)
It is the policy of Dick Conner Correctional Center that Correctional Industries operate on a basis comparable to private industry within the restraints imposed by the prison industrial environment. Correctional Industries provides work and training for offenders and reduces the cost of incarceration to the State of Oklahoma. Dick Conner Correctional Center has over 150 job opportunities for offenders to be employed in the facility’s industries operation.
MEDICAL CARE
Offenders at Dick Conner Correctional Center have access to medical care and emergency care 24 hours a day.
DICK CONNER
R. B. “Dick” Conner started in law enforcement as the Sheriff of Osage County in 1932. He was later appointed warden at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in August 1943 by Governor Rob­ert
S. Kerr. He retired after four years and returned to work as a sheriff’s deputy in Tulsa County. Conner died in 1955 at the age of 63 after almost 30 years of service in corrections and law enforcement. Dick Conner Correctional Center is a me­dium
security facility located in Hominy, Oklahoma. It opened in 1979.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 59
Opened: 1973
Location: Atoka
Capacity: 616
Gender: Male
Security: Minimum
Warden
Bruce Howard
Howard McLeod Correctional Center
HMCC is a minimum security insti­tution
located approximately 30 miles southeast of Atoka, Oklahoma. Con­struction
of the institution began in November, 1961, and was completed a year later. The facility was constructed by offenders from Stringtown Correc­tional
Center (currently Mack Alford Correctional Center), who were super­vised
by Stringtown Vo-Tech instruc­tors.
The center is a 5,000 acre site. HMCC was under the direction of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary until July, 1973.
In 1978, a name change was imple­mented
by the Oklahoma State Legis­lature,
from McLeod Honor Farm to Howard McLeod Correctional Center. The building now known as west dorm was built from Oklahoma State Peni­tentiary
brick and lumber saw milled from trees harvested from state land. HMCC is the only correctional center in Oklahoma that has ever utilized a saw mill to produce lumber.
OFFENDER PROGRAMS
The HMCC Career Tech Skills Center gives offenders the opportunity to ac­quire
job skills in the areas of Heavy Equipment Operation, Welding, and Precision Machining Technology and Masonry Program. Career Tech also aids released offenders in job place­ment
in order to lessen the chance of re-offending.
Various self help programs, including Thinking For A Change and Life Link, are available from the unit staff and the chapel. The facility Psychological Cli­nician
is the provider for a Thinking For A Change class.
AGRI-SERVICES
The Agriculture Services Farm Program staff consists of a Farm Manager IV and two Farm Managers. The staff super­vises
approximately 19 offenders, who work in the following areas: Livestock, Tractor/Farm Implements, Firewood and Brush Cutting, Utility Farm Crews (fence repair, hay hauling, etc.)
Approximately 1,800 acres of facility property are covered with timber. An ongoing program to selectively cut the timber is in place that will allow more 60 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
of the land to be grazed by cattle. Ap­proximately
2,927 acres are presently being used as pasture land. Approxi­mately
819 head of cattle are being managed by Agriculture Services
ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG
In 1994, while training HMCC’s track­ing
dogs, Sgt. Bobby Cross found an extremely large bone north of the fa­cility,
on state property, that had been uncovered by rain. The bone was sent to the University of Oklahoma and was determined to be a dinosaur bone. Pa­leontologists
from the university were sent to HMCC and have discovered 14 individual dinosaur skeletons of four different dinosaur species to in­clude
Tenontosaurus, Deinonychus, Acrocanthosauris, and Sauroposeidon which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest land dwelling dinosaur. Also found while digging dinosaur bones was a small mouse sized mammal from the same era that was name Paracimexomys-crossi after COIV Bobby Cross. The skele­tons
from the mammals and dinosaurs found on HMCC’s land are displayed in the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History in Norman.
RELIGION
The HMCC religious program is su­pervised
by a full time chaplain who strives to accommodate all offenders in the practice of their faith. He is aided by approximately 182 volunteers who serve a valuable function in the delivery of religious services.
MEDICAL
A health services unit is responsible for providing general medical care and emergency treatment of the offender population. Dental care is provided on-site. Psychological services are pro­vided
by a Psychological Clinician III who provides individual counseling to approximately 215 offenders each month.
EDUCATION
The Lakeside School offers learning opportunities for the offender popula­tion,
regardless of their academic level, at no cost to the offender. The Educa­tion
Department at Howard McLeod Correctional Center is staffed by four Correctional Teacher I’s. At this time classes ranging from Literacy to GED are offered. Placement is determined by TABE testing new arrivals at LARC or at HMCC to determine grade-level performance. College courses are also available through Rose State College for offenders who qualify.
FACILITY GARDEN
The HMCC Facility Garden staff con­sists
of an Institutional Farm Manager III and 1-2 Correctional Officers (as available). The staff supervises approxi­mately
90 offenders. The offenders who work in the HMCC garden perform a variety of tasks which include plant propagation in a greenhouse that was constructed by offenders. These plants are then used for production in the fields. Offenders prepare the soil for planting, apply fertilizer, plant the seeds or plants, and perform daily mainte­nance
of the crops after planting.
Some of the daily tasks include cultivat­ing,
hoeing, mowing equipment main­tenance
and repair, as well as irrigation of the crops. The final step in the pro­cess
is harvesting of the produce. All of the vegetables are picked and packaged by hand using offender labor. The pro­duce
is then hauled from the field to storage units or loaded on trucks to be sent to other facilities.
HOWARD MCLEOD
The Howard McLeod Correctional Center (HMCC) was named after Howard C. McLeod, who started in corrections at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, Oklahoma. He later served as chief sergeant and assistant deputy at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary from 1940 to 1955. He was appointed warden at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and served in that capacity from 1955 to 1959. McLeod’s concern for meaningful labor for offenders led to the purchase of an “Honor Farm” outside Farris, Oklahoma, in Atoka county. That farm, known as the McLeod Honor Farm, later became the Howard C. McLeod Correctional Center. McLeod died in 1959 at the age of 63.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 61
Jackie Brannon Correctional Center
Opened: 1985
Location: McAlester
Capacity: 737
Gender: Male
Security: Minimum
Warden
Emma Watts
In one sense, Jackie Brannon Correc­tional
Center (JBCC) was the third state correctional center, originally opening in 1927. But it operated as a trusty unit of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, on OSP grounds, until being officially es­tablished
as a stand-alone minimum security institution on July 1, 1985. The facility is named in honor of Jackie Brannon, who began his correctional ca­reer
in 1961 as a Correctional Officer at OSP. In 1981, he was promoted to Dep­uty
Warden of the OSP Trusty Unit, in which capacity he served until his death in 1984. It is this same trusty unit, since expanded, that bears his name.
JBCC is located on 1,300 acres in the northwest section of McAlester, Okla­homa.
The facility has three housing units that house 737 inmates. The fa­cility
sends out Prisoner Public Works Program crews to assist with work in the city, county, and with the Depart­ment
of Transportation. There is also a six month Substance Abuse Treatment Program for offenders who meet the en­rollment
requirements. Burial rites for all indigent Oklahoma offenders are per­formed
at JBCC.
Substance Abuse Treatment program is an intensive cognitive treatment pro­gram
for offenders who have a docu­mented
history of substance abuse prob­lems.
This program is six months in duration, with sessions running five (5) days a week, five (5) hours a day. Each six month cycle consists of a maximum of 30 participants. The program has two cycles per year. The program is staffed by both Master’s level psychological counselors and certified treatment coun­selors
from the private sector. During each cycle, participants are exposed to individual and group counseling ses­sions
covering behavioral modification, effects of chemical abuse, goal setting, and relapse prevention.
Education Department offers classes in literacy, adult basic education, GED and on-site college course work on a part-time basis. If requested, offenders may be allowed to attend the GED pro­gram
on a full-time basis. The Educa­tion
Department also offers a Life Skills 62 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
department through the Medical Ser­vices
Division. Training for the peer tutors includes two days of classes. Upon completion of the class they receive one college credit hour. The purpose of this program is to give offenders a chance to learn and un­derstand
the facts concerning HIV, AIDS, STDs, and violence. They learn to prevent infection, protect themselves and be aware of what types of behaviors put them at risk.
Agri-Services – Averages 100 of­fender
workers who, under the su­pervision
of staff, milk an average of 180 cows per day; operate a feed mill which produces 6,000 tons of complete horse, swine, dairy, beef and poultry feed per year; and pro­cess
60,000 dozen eggs per month. There is also a transportation unit at JBCC which is responsible for transporting hay, feed, livestock, milk, eggs and meat to institutions throughout the state.
Meat Processing Center - This center employs 60 offenders and provides all of the beef, pork and lunchmeat items required by the master menu to feed the state’s in­carcerated
population. The meat processing center also includes a Meat Cutting Apprentice program. This Apprentice program is 3 years in duration and successful comple­tion
results in the student being certified by the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Apprenticeship.
Dairy Operation - currently milks approximately 180 cows twice per day producing approximately 650,000 pounds of 2% milk per year. This product is distributed to all Department of Correction facilities.
Religious Services are offered at the JBCC Chapel seven days per week. On Saturdays and Sundays, multi­ple
services are offered. Services are available for the mainstream Chris­tian
religions as well as for Muslim, Seventh Day Adventist, Jehovah Wit­ness,
House of Yahweh and Native American. The faith-based programs of Quest for Authentic Manhood and Celebrate Recovery are also
offered.
JBCC has approximately 160 vol­unteers
entering the facility month­ly.
These volunteers are involved in education and religious services that are provided to the offender popula­tion
at the facility. JBCC is the host facility for providing the orientation training to all new volunteers in the Southeastern part of the state. This training is completed on a quarterly basis.
Health Care Department is a clinic that provides Medical, Mental Health and Dental care. JBCC conducts a daily triage of “sick call” requests where appointments are scheduled 5 days a week. Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 63
Opened: 1982
Location: Helena
Capacity: 969
Gender: Male
Security: Minimum
Medium
Warden
David Parker
James Crabtree Correctional Center
James Crabtree Correctional Center is located in Helena, Oklahoma on the grounds of the old Connell Agri­culture
College. The institution has a history that precedes statehood. The facility was originally established in 1904, and has served the people of the state of Oklahoma as a county high school, a junior college, an orphanage, and a Department of Human Services training school for boys. On May 24, 1982, the former Helena State School for Boys was transferred to the ODOC as the James Crabtree Correctional Center.
This facility was named in honor of James Crabtree, a former warden.
Since the transfer of this facility to the Oklahoma Department of Correc­tions
the James Crabtree Correctional Center has undergone three major construction phases. It currently is composed of eight housing units, and houses medium and minimum secu­rity
offenders. James Crabtree Cor­rectional
Center is the only medium security prison in Oklahoma that pri­marily
operates as an open dormitory style facility.
EDUCATION
Offenders may complete ABE, GED, and college degrees.
BRIDGE PROJECT
A team of JCCC staff recognized that James Crabtree Correctional Cen­ter
had an offender idleness problem within the facility. We house approxi­mately
804 offenders at medium secu­rity.
Out of the total number, approxi­mately
200 offenders were without institutional jobs. This facility houses offenders who are 35 years of age and older. Therefore, we find ourselves with a large group of elderly, sick and disabled offenders, which compounds the idleness problem. Idleness, among offenders, can lead to disruptive behav­iors,
a feeling of worthlessness and de­pression.
We needed to seek out ways of employing these people, specifically targeting elderly, sick and disabled.
The Bridge Project Mission statement is to instill pride and self-worth in offenders through jobs
which in turn aid our community.
The Bridge Project gives offenders the time and materials to build and 64 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
James Crabtree Correctional Center held its third annual fishing day with 23 residents and 17 staff members from the Northern Oklahoma Resource Center of Enid (NORCE), a residential and habilitative facility, also classified as an intermediate care facility for persons with developmental disabilities.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 65
produce items for the needy in the community. They crochet afghan blankets for the elderly in surrounding care centers and produce toys for children, especially during the holiday seasons. In addition, offenders donate their products to families who have suffered loss from fire, weather or financial devastation; there is never a cost to the recipients or their caregivers. From these ideas the “Bridge Project” began.
JCCC’s Bridge Project is so named because the offenders wished to “bridge the gap between society and the offenders” recognizing all of the hardship and loss through crimes had caused and their desire to give back to society. Bridge Project has, and continues to be, a success, because the employee team took a recognized problem and worked with a selected offender group to reach a solution which benefited all concerned.
Medical Services—general medical as well as dental and mental health services are available to offenders.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Services for all recognized religions are provided.
AGRI-SERVICES
The Agri-Services Department has numerous operations. This depart­ment
farms approximately 1,520 acres of land producing small grains, alfalfa and vegetables. The grains are used to over-seed pasture in other farming operations throughout the state. Production of both warm-season and cool-season grasses is a major responsibility of the farm division. Hay crops are grown on an as needed basis. Approximately 50 offenders are needed to maintain the 150 head of mother cows that produce seed stock for seven Agri-Services units, which use Angus, Glebvieh and Beefmaster genetics.
The Agri-Services Food Processing Center manufactures a wide vari­ety
of food products to be used to feed the offender population. Our corndog factory supplies the entire agency with product. Recently ex­panded
gardens at JCCC are pro­viding
a variety of fresh vegetable to include tomatoes, onions and bell peppers. Cantaloupe, watermelons, potatoes, carrots, and broccoli are received from other facilities. All are processed at our plant and distrib­uted
throughout the agency. As of the end of 2010, 148,256 pounds of corndogs, 9,360 pounds of broccoli, 10,360 pounds of carrots, 9,925 pounds of potatoes, 56,780 pounds of chopped onions, 11,100 pounds of tomato sauce, 29,440 pounds of fresh cabbage, 6,740 pounds of chopped cabbage, 5,820 pounds of green beans, 12,180 pounds of greens, 3,560 pounds of tur­nips
and 8,970 pounds of assort­ed
melons had been produced. 315,000 onions were planted for the 2011 spring garden. 10,000 tomato seeds were taken to the Timberlake schools.
CellFor is the world’s leading in­dependent
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seedlings to the global forest industry. Using plant bio­technology,
which is the use of biological processes to manufac­ture
products, CellFor identifies and produces genetically superior conifer seedlings without genetic modification. CellFor corporate headquarters is based in Vancou­ver,
British Columbia, with the primary research and develop­ment,
laboratory and production facilities located north of Victo­ria,
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employes approximately 200 offenders at JCCC.
JAMES CRABTREE
James Crabtree started in corrections at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary as an officer. His career was temporarily in­terrupted
by the Korean War in 1950. He returned to corrections in 1952 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. In July 1973, Crabtree was appointed As­sociate
Warden of the Ouachita Voca­tional
Training Camp. He was named Warden of the Ouachita Correctional Center in 1978, a position he held until he retired in 1981. 66 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
The Jess Dunn institution was origi­nally
constructed in 1930 and used as a mental hospital for black patients only. Through the years, the institu­tion
has been used as a tuberculosis sanitarium, a juvenile girl’s facility, and a juvenile co-ed home. In April 1980, the facility was transferred from the Department of Human Services to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC).
At one time, Dick Conner Correction­al
Center was to be named after Jess Dunn, prior to legislative intervention. Thus, it seemed only logical to name this facility, the next acquisition subse­quent
to the Conner facility, after Jess Dunn. Jess Dunn served as warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary from 1938 until August 10, 1941, when he was killed during a shootout resulting from an offender escape attempt. Also killed were a sheriff’s jailer (a former OSP guard) and 3 of the 4 offenders involved in the escape attempt. The remaining offender was later executed for Jess Dunn’s murder.
The institution is located on approxi­mately
1,100 acres and is comprised of six major buildings that house residents and administration. Main­tenance
shops, OCI farm complex, laundry, vo-tech, supply, and other support operations are housed in other assorted buildings on the institutional grounds. Originally, the facility was co-ed with approximately 302 of its population being female. The ODOC no longer operates co-ed facilities.
Another interesting twist to JDCC is that it shares a warden and associ­ated
administrative staff with the Eddie Warrior Correctional Center (EWCC), a female facility. EWCC is a separate facility from the JDCC but they are separated by only a few hun­dred
yards. Together, they are known today as the Taft Unit. This merger occurred on January 1, 2001. The positions of business manager, human resource specialist, warden’s assistant, procedure officer and training officer also serve in a dual capacity at both facilities.
SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT PROGRAM (Male Facility)
The Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) is an intensive, cognitive-be­havior
program that consists of six (6) phases. Phase I is a 16-week educa­Jess
Dunn Correctional Center
Warden
Mike Mullin
Opened: 1980
Location: Taft
Capacity: 982
Gender: Male
Security: MinimumOklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 67
tional module offered by mental health employees and is mandatory for offend­ers
who have been convicted of a sex offense after November 1988. Phase I provides sex offenders with information designed to increase their knowledge and understanding of sexual abuse and to help motivate the offender to volun­teer
for additional intensive sex offender treatment. The program is comprised of a psychoeducation program with 36 hours of intervention strategies designed to inform sex offenders of pro-social be­liefs
and attitudes resulting in the offenders correcting certain defects or maladaptive be­haviors.
Phases II through VI are voluntary and designed to prevent additional sexually deviant and abusive acts.
AGRI SERVICES
The Agri-Services Division of the De­partment
of Corrections plays a vital role in enabling offenders to learn valuable job skills and work ethics. Approximate­ly
45 offenders are assigned to the 800 acre Taft Unit Agri-Services farm opera­tion
and perform many tasks to include welding, repairing fences, weed control and watching cattle. The unit also raises Beefmaster cattle as seed stock for seven (7) Agri-Services units, which use Beef­master
bulls. Beefmaster bulls are bred to Angus cows to produce heifers for the annual Beefmaster Southern Cross Sale held on the 2nd Saturday in March at the Taft Unit Agri-Services Unit.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
The mission of mental health services at JDCC is to improve the offender’s ability to manage their mental health concerns while building a supportive, recovery-oriented culture. The goal of services is to improve the offender’s abil­ity
to successfully manage mental health, behavioral and adjustment concerns by encouraging participation in psycho-educational classes and peer-to-peer sup­port
services in addition to traditional services of counseling and medication management. Mental health treatment staff are also actively involved in consul­tation
services with facility administra­tive,
security, medical and support ser­vices
to promote a culture of proactive identification and response to offender mental health concerns.
Correctional Recovery Support Services describes the model of mental health services that is used at Jess Dunn Cor­rectional
Center. Correctional Recovery Support Services uses traditional men­tal
health services of individual therapy and medication management. However, the model differs from traditional men­tal
health services in that it relies heav­ily
on psycho-educational classes and peer-to-peer support groups to teach fundamental strategies for recovery from co-occurring concerns of mental illness, substance abuse, trauma, and criminal thinking patterns. This model encour­ages
offenders to take personal responsi­bility
for wellness self-management and recovery by providing offenders with several options for service participation.
Jess Dunn Correctional Center has sev­eral
offenders who have become certified as Recovery Support Specialists. These men are trained to encourage and mo­tivate
offenders to participate in services and they represent the first group of of­fenders
in the nation who have become certified while incarcerated. Since the certification program began in 2010, the Recovery Support Specialists have helped to develop peer-to-peer support groups and psycho-educational classes as well as providing individual mentor­ing
and support to offenders who are dealing with mental health concerns. There are approximately 40 peer-to-peer support and wellness manage­ment
classes going on at JDCC each week with an average of 150 offend­JESS
DUNN
Jess Dunn served as warden of the Okla­homa
State Penitentiary from 1938 to 1941. Dunn was killed in a shoot out that resulted from an offender escape attempt on August 10, 1941. Jess Dunn Correc­tional
Center is a minimum security facil­ity
located in Taft, Oklahoma. It opened in 1980.68 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
ers choosing to participate in peer-to-peer services. Professional mental health staff are also actively involved in providing psycho-educational pro­grams
that promote wellness and recovery with a monthly average of 125 offenders enrolled in programs. These programs encourage devel­opment
of positive coping skills as well as provide incentives for earning achievement credits and maintaining positive adjustment.
Approximately 55% of the offend­ers
at JDCC have histories of mental health treatment involvement with 27% of offenders currently involved in treatment. Even though JDCC has a professional treatment staff of 2 full-time mental health staff and a psychiatrist who is available one day a week, mental health service contacts are in excess of 2,500 a month. The Correctional Recovery Support Ser­vices
model represents efficient and effective use of resources of encour­aging
offenders to learn positive self-management skills as they prepare for reentry into the community.
SEX OFFENDER PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM (SOPEP)
On March 31, 2010, due to state budget shortfalls, the Department of Corrections was forced to terminate the Sex Offender Treatment Program indefinitely. In wake of the termination of the Sex Offender Treatment Program, the Life Preparation Program (LPP) and the Sex Offender Psycho-Educational Program (SOPEP) were placed on the D-East Unit to fill the void left behind by the program. Continuing concern for Sex Offender Management and public safety demanded that issues of sexual deviancy be addressed.
SOPEP is an educational program de­veloped
to inform sex offenders about sexual abuse, sexual abusers, treatment concepts, interpersonal skill bulding, and treatment available in the com­munity.
The program is administered through mental health services of the Oklahoma Department of Correc­tions.
Material included in the pro­gram
represents 42 hours of classroom concepts that are often used when treating sexual offenders.
SOPEP is divided into seven topical sections and includes 21 modules. Each topical section addresses thera­peutic
concepts and philosophies, while individual modules highlight an array of themes which convey a more specific understanding of the section. Participants will be expected to read each module prior to the ses­sion
when that module will be dis­cussed.
The total duration of SOPEP is a minimum of four months.
HEALTH SERVICES
The facility provides medical, den­tal
and psychological services. Spe­cific
information concerning these services is provided during facility orientation. A $2.00 co-pay will be charged for each visit requested by the offender; however, offenders will not be refused health care because of their financial status.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
All offenders remanded to the custody of the Taft Unit facilities retain the right to choose their religious beliefs and to practice religious acts. Reli­gious
activities/services are offered for all denominations and coordinated by the facility chaplain and volunteers. Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 69
Opened: 1969
Location: Hodgen
Capacity: 706
Gender: Male
Security: Minimum
Warden
Haskell Higgins
Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center
The area now occupied by Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center, formerly Ouachita Correctional Center, dates back to 1933 when it served as the home of the Civil Conservation Corps. The facility grounds were later utilized by the U.S. Forestry Department and, in the early 1960s, by the Hodgen Job Corps.
The facility is located in Hodgen, Oklahoma on the northern edge of the Ouachita National Forest. The town of Poteau is approximately 28 miles to the North.
In 1969, the Federal Government made the decision to demolish the existing campsite, but the plan was delayed when legislation was spon­sored
by Senator James E. Hamil­ton
to introduce a better plan for the site. Camp Hodgen, as it was called then, was the first offender training facility in the U.S. offering vocational-technical training by the State Department of Vo-Tech Edu­cation
in cooperation with the State Department of Corrections.
In 1971, the first offender Vo-Tech students arrived at the facility. The JEHCC is the largest correctional vocational training program in the state. The Vo-Tech program has grown to a total of 8 different skill areas currently available at the facil­ity:
industrial electricity, air condi­tioning
and refrigeration, welding, building construction, masonry, building maintenance, industrial maintenance, transmission repair, front end/suspension and engine performance. Training in an aca­demic
enhancement program and a comprehensive reintegration pro­gram
is also provided as part of Ca­reer
Tech Skills Center. The state department of Career Technology Education provides training oppor­tunities
to all eligible offenders at no cost.
In addition to providing training opportunities for offenders, Ca­reerTech
also provides the Oklaho­ma
DOC and other state agencies, assistance with special construction projects and repairs on state vehi­cles.
This service has saved state, county and municipal agencies many valuable tax dollars for repairs 70 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
and preventative maintenance of pre­cious
agency resources. JEHCC has benefited immensely from having a CareerTech center on site. Several facility buildings have been built ei­ther
partially or entirely with skilled offender labor provided through the training programs.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION from basic literacy, through GED, to college level courses are provided by full time, state certified teachers. Approximately 50-75 offenders receive their GED at JEHCC each year. A leisure library provides an extensive collection of books and reference collection to meet the educational and recreational needs of the offender population. A recent facility renovation in the Academic Ed­ucation
building resulted in combin­ing
the Leisure Library with the facil­ity
Law Library and are currently both under one supervisor.
The MEDICAL UNIT provides clini­cally
appropriate and necessary medi­cal,
dental and mental health care for offenders at the facility. Psychological services provide individual and group counseling, crisis intervention, assess­ment
consultation and evaluation as requested by staff. Health care is deliv­ered
by 13 full-time staff.
FOOD SERVICE provides balanced nutritional meals to the offender popu­lation.
Three meals a day are served in a central dining facility with group din­ing.
The master menu is developed and reviewed annually by a licensed dieti­cian.
Seven staff members are employed within the unit. JEHCC has started a facility garden which provides various vegetables that help reduce food cost. Once planted, the total garden area covers approximately 5.57 acres. Veg­etable
production has exceeded 40,000 pounds.
RELIGIOUS PROGRAMS provide a schedule of services of various faiths, seven days a week. A faith based pro­gram
“New Life Behaviors” is provided weekly that stresses family and personal responsibility. A religious library is also provided.
JIM E. HAMILTON
Former Oklahoma State Senator, Jim Hamilton, served in the Senate from 1967 until 1976. In 1984, after an eight year absence from the legislature, he was elected to the State House of Representatives where he served until 1998.
The Ouachita Correctional Center was officially changed to the Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center, in honor of Senator Hamilton on December 10, 1998.
Highlights
1977
Female correctional officers were employed and allowed to work in male institutions.
2003
Oklahoma becomes the first correctional system in the nation to place offender records on the internet.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 71
Joseph Harp Correctional Center
Opened: 1978
Location: Lexington
Capacity: 1,397
Gender: Male
Security: Medium
Warden
Mike Addison
The Joseph Harp Correctional Cen­ter
is a medium security institution located near the town of Lexington, in central Oklahoma. The facility officially opened on September 26, 1978, and received its first offenders two days later. The site of the facility had been used by the Navy as a firing range during World War II. After the war, the land was turned over to the Mental Health Department, which in turn transferred it to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 1971.
Joseph Harp Correctional Center is named in honor and memory of War­den
Joseph Harp who served as war­den
at the Oklahoma State Reforma­tory
from 1949 until 1969. Warden Joseph Harp was clearly an innovative leader and professional in the field of corrections. Under Warden Harp, Oklahoma State Reformatory was the first institution to establish a fully accredited academic High School be­hind
prison walls. Warden Harp rec­ognized
that one of the greatest needs of many offenders was a high school education. As early as 1950, Warden Harp proposed in a legislative report the need for: a Department of Cor­rections;
a merit system of employ­ment;
a statewide probation system staffed with competent officers who would make pre-sentence investiga­tions;
a reception center for all felons coming into a prison system; and a full time pardon and parole board.
DIVERSIFIED MARKETING, INC., AND BACK OFFICE SUPPORT SYSTEM
DMI provides telephone sales for products such as hunting equipment, t-shirts and nursing home supplies.
BOSS provides telephone sales for business long distance services. It is the newest offender work site at the facility.72 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
THINKING FOR A CHANGE
Thinking for a Change is a cognitive-behavioral based program. It consists of 22 lessons divided into three sec­tions.
The first section teaches cog­nitive
restructuring where offenders learn to change their habitual think­ing
in order to change their behav­ior.
The second section teaches social skills. Through demonstration and role-playing, offenders learn how to interact with others in a constructive manner. The third and final section of the program teaches problem solv­ing.
The skills learned in cognitive restructuring and social skills training are combined with a model of prob­lem
solving. Offenders then learn how to achieve their goals through means that are re­spectful
of others, avoid conflict, and that does not violate laws or rules.
B UNIT/DELAYED SENTENCE PROGRAM
B unit has a dual purpose of hous­ing
general population offenders and Delayed Sentence offenders. The Delayed Sentence program includes youthful offenders subjected to a brief period of incarceration by the judge, without formal sentencing. While on Delayed Sentence status, they are to complete programs and maintain clear conduct. If they are able to adhere to the criteria, the judge may release them with a sus­pended
sentence. If they are not able to, the judge may impose formal sentencing. Programs offered to the Delayed Sentence of­fenders
include Education, Thinking for a Change, Life Without a Crutch, and Life Skills.
G UNIT/INTERMEDIATE CARE HOUSING UNIT AND HABILITATION CENTER PROGRAM
G Unit was established in 1999 to increase medium security bed space. The unit holds 200 offenders, dou­ble-
celled, with G-1 housing the Habilitation Center Program (HCP) offenders and G-2 housing Interme­diate
Care Housing Unit (ICHU) of­fenders.
There are approximately 50 general population/resident assistant offenders throughout the unit. the HCP section provides services for of­fenders
with less than average intel­lectual
functioning and/or those who have deficiencies in adaptive behav­ior.
The ICHU section is a multidis­ciplinary
therapeutic environment for offenders diagnosed with severe mental illness.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Services provided include medica­tion
management, suicide preven­tion,
individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, and psycho-educational groups. Once an of­fender
is stable, the treatment team determines if the offender can re­turn
to general population or will be referred to the Intermediate Care Housing Unit.
The Habilitation Center Program (HCP) admits offenders with IQ Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 73
JOSEPH HARP
Joseph Harp served as warden at the Oklahoma State Reformatory from 1949 until 1969. Warden Joseph Harp was clearly an innovative leader and professional in the field of corrections. Under Warden Harp, Oklahoma State Reformatory was the first institution to establish a fully accredited academic High School behind prison walls. Warden Harp recognized that one of the greatest needs of many inmates was a high school education.
As early as 1950, Warden Harp pro­posed
in a legislative report the need for: A Department of Corrections; a merit system of employment; a state­wide
probation system staffed with competent officers who would make pre-sentence investigations; a recep­tion
center for all felons coming into the prison system; and a full time par­don
and parole board.
scores below 70 and major deficits in adaptive functioning. Addition­ally,
other developmental disabilities and offenders with dementia or oth­er
cognitive impairments are served. The program provides training in life skills, job skills, pro-social behaviors, decision-making, functional read­ing
and math skills, and addresses criminal behaviors such as substance abuse and sex offenses. Individual psychotherapy, crisis management, suicide prevention, and medication monitoring are provided.
Because strong family and commu­nity
ties increase the likelihood that the offender will succeed after release, visits are encouraged.
Mental Health services provided to the general population includes medication monitoring, crisis man­agement,
suicide prevention, a nine-week Substance Abuse course, a 16-week course Sex Offender Psy­cho-
educational program (a modified course is offered for HCP offenders) and consultations with staff.
J UNIT/MEDICAL UNIT
J Unit was established in 2007 to pro­vide
housing for those meeting one of the following criteria: Dementia/Alzheimer patient; vision impaired/blind; wheelchair bound; uses walk­er/
crutches; 65 or older. There are four isolation cells for those with in­fectious/
contagious diseases such as tuberculosis. The unit is ADA com­pliant,
taking into consideration doors, drinking fountains, toilet and shower stalls, etc. There are 262 beds on this unit. Trained medical orderlies are offenders assigned to as­sist
the residents of this specialized unit, providing basic skills to assist those physically disabled.
EDUCATION SERVICES
The Education department includes academic education, library services and a future pre-employment train­ing
program. The academic pro­gram
includes literacy, special needs, ABE, GED, ESL, and college pro­grams.
Library services support a leisure library for offenders. Educa­tion
also includes a pre-release class for offenders related to general life skills and a program for offenders who are within a year of release who seek to be self-employed.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
These services are designed to help offenders meet their religious needs during their incarceration. This is accomplished in numerous ways by volunteers from various faith groups coming in to conduct regular re­ligious
services, and special events such as concerts and tent meetings under the tower; helping the Islamic community with Ramadan and the feasts; assisting when offenders have a death in the family; assisting with weddings; and arranging special ministerial visits.
OKLAHOMA CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES (OCI)
began operations at JHCC in 1979 with the manufacturing of furniture for state and local governments and non-profit organizations. Since that time, other service and manufac­turing
functions have been added. OCI employs eleven correctional industries staff and more than 250 offenders.
The furniture factory produces a varied line of office furniture includ­ing
desks, filing cabinets, bookcases, 74 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
credenzas, and chairs. The records conversion department includes a remote data-entry operation, a batch-entry operation building data­bases
and a

2010 Yearbook
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRERECTIONSOklahoma
Department of Corrections
State of Oklahoma
2010 YearbookOklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 3
2010 Yearbook4 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 YearbookSTANDING PROUD
VISION
The Department of Corrections will create a culture that empowers individuals, encourages teamwork, employs best practices, and embraces diversity.
VALUES
Professionalism
Rehabilitation
Integrity
Diversity
Excellence
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OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRERECTIONS6 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
History
MISSION STATEMENT
“The mission of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections
is to protect the public, the employees, and the offenders.”
January 10, 1967 is an important day in corrections history. It was on this date that Governor Dewey Bartlett made a historic announcement in his Legisla­tive
address, when he said:
“I have had prepared for introduction, today, a bill creating a new Department of Corrections. This bill has been prepared, after consultation with leaders of both Houses of the Legislature. It is a joint recommendation of your leadership and the administration. Briefly, this bill provides for the creation of a new state Corrections Department, consisting of a state Board of Corrections, a state director of Corrections, and three divisions: a Division of Institutions, a Division of Probation and Parole, and a Division of Inspection. The Division of Inspection will perform duties of the present Charities and Corrections Department.”Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 7
Contents
Historical Highlights.........................................................................................................................................................................6
Board of Corrections.........................................................................................................................................................................9
Special Recognition Awards.............................................................................................................................................................11
Executive Staff.................................................................................................................................................................................23
Director’s Office..........................................................................................................................................................................25 Employee Rights and Relations.............................................................................................................................................26
Executive Communications...................................................................................................................................................27
General Counsel....................................................................................................................................................................27
Internal Affairs......................................................................................................................................................................28
Administrative Services..........................................................................................................................................................29
Treatment and Rehabilitative Services....................................................................................................................................31
Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services..................................................................................................34
Field Operations....................................................................................................................................................................35 Female Offender Operations............................................................................................................................................39
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nstitutions.......................................................................................................................................................................51
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perational Services.........................................................................................................................................................91
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rivate Prison and Jail Administration..............................................................................................................................97
Community Corrections.....................................................................................................................................................103
Community
Work Centers.............................................................................................................................................121
Charts and Statistics......................................................................................................................................................................125
Budget Information.......................................................................................................................................................................129
Agency Directory..........................................................................................................................................................................1318 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Foreword
Welcome to a brief and partial review of history for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in the form of this 2010 Yearbook. This is a unique way to capture portions of our history now, so questions such as who was in charge of our industries program and what did it look like, can be answered in future generations. Eventually, some information in these yearbooks will be incorporated into the next edition of our history book.
For many years, our department has been nationally recognized for being one of the most efficient and effective correctional systems. This has been reinforced through comprehensive audits, legislative interim studies and a host of other reviews. This is a reflection of our dedicated professional employees’ “can do” culture and ability to overcome obstacles, and is supported by the narratives and photos contained in this yearbook. Years from now, the next generation of correctional employees can look at these reports to garner an improved understanding of progress and history. Also, because it will be on the website, anyone can access our history for research, studies, school assignments and an array of other possible usages.
A sincere thanks and a wealth of gratitude is extended to all of our employees for making 2010 another safe and productive year. Although budget reductions placed many hardships on employees, the department continued to be a national leader in relation to key quality indicators of a well-managed correctional system. Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 9
Board of Corrections
The Oklahoma Department of Cor­rections
was created by legislation in 1967, and in that legislation, the State Board of Corrections was cre­ated
to be the governing board of the Department. The legislation stated that the Board shall consist of seven members appointed by the Gover­nor
with the advice and consent of the Senate. One member shall be appointed from each congressional district and any remaining members shall be appointed from the State at-large. The term of appointment is six years and the terms are staggered. No more than four members of the Board shall be of the same political party. Vacancies on the Board are filled for the unexpired term. Board officers include Chairperson, Vice-chairperson, and Secretary, which are filled annually.
The Board normally meets monthly with the Director to review the ad­ministration
and activities of the De­partment.
The meetings are conduct­ed
in accordance with Oklahoma’s “Open Meetings Law.” In addition to tours of facilities taken in con­junction
with regular Board meet­ings,
Board members are encouraged to conduct at least one unannounced visit to a facility or district probation and parole office per year.
The power and duties of the Board include the following:
• To establish policies for the opera­tions
of the Department;
• To approve personnel matters in­cluding:
appointing and fixing the salary of the Director, confirming the appointments of wardens, dis­trict
supervisors, and other staff members as presented to the Board by the Director;
• To approve contracts and budgets including: selection of architectur­al
firms if the fee is over $200,000;
• The selection of sites for new in­stitutions
and community correc­tions
centers and approve reloca­tion
of existing facilities;
• Review and approve the proposed DOC budget before it is submit­ted
to the State Budget Office in the fall of each year;
• Review and approve emerging ex­penditures
of money that exceed the Director’s authority as allowed by law; and
• Review and approve contracts with private prisons.
Ted Logan
Chair
Matthew Hunter McBee
Vice Chair10 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Board of Corrections
Gerald W. Wright
Member
Robert L. Rainey
Member
Linda Neal
Secretary
David C. Henneke
Member
Earnest D. Ware
MemberOklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 11
SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS12 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
2010 Correctional Officer of the Year
Corporal Barker began his career with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 2006. He is a graduate of Snyder High School. He has since attended Applied Leadership and CLD classes. Once he has taken the Basic Instructor Development, he would like to help teach classes for co-workers. Corporal Barker has served as Caustic/Flammable Control Officer since 2007 and during this time he set up an efficient system for tracking/controlling supplies and organized the vehicle maintenance files to improve routine and preventive maintenance on facility vehicles. Both contributions have resulted in increased efficiency and decreased costs.
Corporal Barker communicates well with offenders, job supervisors and co-workers. He represents the agency well as he serves in the community as past president of the Chamber of Commerce, Rodeo Association, Lion’s Club and the American Legion.
Larry C. Barker
Correctional Security Officer III
Sayre Community Work Center
Northwest District Community CorrectionsOklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 13
2010 Correctional Officer Supervisor of the Year
Cory E. Ketch
Correctional Security Manager II
Mabel Bassett Correctional Center
Captain Ketch began his career with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 1998. He is a graduate of Checotah High School. His knowledge, experience, and skills in responding to critical incidents serve as an excellent example of the role of a correctional officer supervisor. He has received facility meritorious service awards for his heroic efforts and life-saving measures involving suicide attempts by mental health offenders. During his 10 years at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center, Captain Ketch’s ability to bring order and direction to chaotic situations, professionalism, integrity and effective communication skills have proven to be an asset as he works with co-workers and offenders. Captain Ketch also serves as a member of the Booster Club of Bethel High School where he assists in raising funds to provide equipment and resources for the youth in the community.14 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
2010 Probation and Parole Officer of the Year
Nathan A. Rhea, Probation and Parole Officer II, Tulsa County District Community Corrections is the Agency Probation and Parole Officer of the Year for 2010.
Officer Rhea began his career with the Department of Corrections in April 2007. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Sociology/Criminology from the University of Oklahoma in 2005. He is now working on his Graduate degree in Human Relations at the University of Oklahoma – Tulsa campus. Officer Rhea is a dependable professional who is willing to help others on his team and, as a result, is highly respected by his peers, supervisors and clients. In addition, he conducts an average of 25 discretionary home visits each month. The large number of letters in support of his nomination substantiates the proficiency he demonstrates on the job and the reputation for excellence he maintains. Officer Rhea is certified as a Self Defense Instructor and OC Instructor for the agency. He was also selected by the Drug Court Team to attend the National Drug Court Conference in June 2010. Officer Rhea volunteers in his church, is a member of the National Helping Individuals with Criminal Records reenter through Employment Network (H.I.R.E. Network), and participated in the Hurricane Ike disaster relief efforts in Galveston.
Nathan A. Rhea
Probation and Parole Officer II
Tulsa County District
Community Corrections Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 15
Outstanding Employee of the Year
Judy Brinkley is a nurse with the heart of a nurse. She volunteers her time to offer care to others in the community. She is also a wife and mom who cares for her family.
Ms. Brinkley has been the "tip of the spear" for the Department of Corrections in the de­velopment
and implementation of an electronic health record. Ms. Brinkley researched and developed work flows and templates for Department of Corrections medical pro­cesses,
and developed dozens (if not hundreds) of forms and other methods of electronic documentation. Ms. Brinkley has worked long hours providing training for users. She has then gone home at night and made improvements in the process to allow for bet­ter
ease of use. Ms. Brinkley has been available for consultation with users and has also worked closely with the vendor, encouraging a better and better product.
Judy H. Brinkley
Medical Services
Treatment and Rehabilitative Services Division16 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Professional Excellence Recipient
Rita Cooksey is a lifetime member of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, a member of Oklahoma Correctional Association and American Correctional Association. She is an active volunteer at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, providing many hours of service to the museum annually. Most impressively, Rita has established and held the "Kids At Risk Rodeo and School Supply Giveaway" for the past 15 years. Originally held in Spencer, Oklahoma, Ms. Cooksey expanded the rodeo to include the Boley area last summer, providing more than 35 children with school supplies and self confidence! Approximately 75 children were involved at the Spencer, Oklahoma location. Ms. Cooksey has been actively working for parity in the area of Female Corrections for many years and has served on various task forces to enhance this area of corrections.
Rita Cooksey is a 29-year veteran with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. She has an extensive correctional background including positions in Institutions, Probation and Parole, Training, House Arrest, Community Corrections and Administrative experi­ence.
Ms. Cooksey has faced many challenges within the department and has met each challenge with determination and a positive attitude. Over the years. Ms. Cooksey has established a network of alliances throughout state government and is able to call on them for information or assistance at a moment's notice. When Ms. Cooksey was assigned as deputy warden at John Lilley Correctional Center, the employees embraced her openness and her professional manner. She has improved the classification audits, organized job as­signments,
assisted with transition to a secretarial pool and has generally been a cheerleader for the staff as well as offenders.
Rita Cooksey
John Lilley Correctional Center
Field Operations DivisionOklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 17
Medal of Valor Recipient
Donnie R. Martin
Community Sentencing/Offender Information Services Division
August 21, 2009, at approximately 6:15 p.m., Donnie Martin was traveling south on US 75 in a State vehicle as he returned from a day of work in Tulsa to his assigned office in McAlester. He observed a vehicle in front of him, traveling in the same direction, move to the west shoulder and then into the ditch. No brake lights were noted. Donnie lost sight of the car over the crest of a hill but saw the top of a tree shake from an impact. He pulled over to the shoulder, turned on the emergency flashers, and called 911. He then proceeded to the sight of the crash. Donnie observed that a fire had started in the engine compartment of the wrecked vehicle and that the driver was still in the car. He returned to the State vehicle, retrieved the fire extinguisher, and attempted to put out the fire. The extinguisher depleted before the fire was completely out. After determining the male driver was the only occupant of the vehicle, Donnie checked the neck of the driver for a pulse and found none. He reported that information to the 911 operator and passed his phone to another person to maintain contact. Donnie then attempted to open the driver's side door but found it was jammed. Next, he tried, unsuccessfully, to pry open the door with his hands. Donnie then returned again to his vehicle to search for a tool to help with the door. Finding nothing, he went back to the wrecked car and continued attempts to open the door. Another man showed up with a digging bar, which was used to pry open the door. By this time, the inside of the car was filling with smoke. Donnie, along with the other passerby, removed the victim from the car, placing him a safe distance away. At this time, law enforcement arrived and instructed Donnie and his assistant to move the victim further from the vehicle. After doing so, Donnie left the immediate area so that CPR could be administered and he could relocate the State car to make way for emergency respondents arriving to extinguish the flames fully engulfing the wreckage and to administer further life-saving measures. Despite the efforts of employee Donnie Martin, the victim, unfortunately, died at the scene from massive injuries sustained in the crash.
While Donnie's day-to-day duties as a computer programmer are important to the agency, he does not normally encounter life-or-death situations. On an ordinary workday, happenstance placed Donnie at the scene of a crisis. At great risk to his own personal safety, he did not hesitate to attempt the rescue of a fellow citizen. Donnie maintained a clear head and did everything within his power to ensure the survival of the driver and the safety of the scene. 18 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Volunteer of the Year
John Easley, Founder
GENESIS ONE NETWORK
GENESIS ONE NETWORK, founded in 2000, is a Christian, faith-based reentry program that links an offender's personal growth and positive development while inside to the availability of resources on the outside. A spiritual transformation is essential to the successful transition from incarceration back to society.
Genesis One's chapters within DOC facilities develop individual Life-Plans for its members that encourage change and growth in the important elements of their life: Spiritual growth, vocational growth, educational growth, living skills, positive behavioral change, as well as preparing them for successful reentry. All members are required to attend weekly group accountability sessions. G-1's Life-Plan utilizes all available programs and drives up the attendance in each: faith-based programs and DOC sponsored programs.
Genesis One's outside team partners with those that can provide resources to Genesis One graduates as they are released. These resources include housing, employment, food and clothing banks, substance abuse recovery programs, legal, medical, and church/mentors. The overwhelming positive relationships with G-1 graduates have created a very receptive resource base.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 19
2010 Teacher of the Year
Phil Collins
Howard Mcleod
Correctional Center
Phil went to work for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 1984 as a Food Service Supervisor. He had worked his way through college as a food service worker, and was a full time supervisor upon graduation. His plan was to pass his probationary period, and then transfer to the education unit. Unfortunately, his plan didn’t happen any time soon. He spent seven years as a food service worker before he could even get an interview with the principal. In retrospect, those seven years grounded him in corrections.
In December of 1991, Phil transferred into the Education unit as a teacher. In the past twenty years, He have taught ABE, GED, Literacy, and facilitated College courses. He as­sessed
new receptions at the reception facility, and spent time managing the correctional library. He is currently the facility’s GED Examiner. He has fulfilled whatever role or duty was necessary to serve our students. Phil spent twenty-two years working at a men’s me­dium
security facility and the last five years at a men’s minimum security facility. He has seen corrections change from a “lock them up” mentality to a perspective that says we need to effect change while we have the opportunity because a large percentage of our clients will be returning to their communities. 20 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Oklahoma Correctional Employee Memorial Foundation (OCEMF) Memorial Service
May 5, 2010 • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1. Department of Corrections Honor Guard
2. Ann Tandy, Board President, OCEMF
3. Ron Hood, Chaplain, Northeast District Community Corrections
4. “The Missing Officer Table” originally designed by the Correctional Peace Officer Foundation (CPOF) and recreated for the memorial service, stands beside 19 wreaths for each Department of Corrections’ employee killed in the line of duty
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Leadership Academy22 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
COST OF INCARCERATION
(FY10 Actual Expenditures)
TYPE DAILY ANNUAL
Maximum $75.87 $27,693
Medium $42.41 $15,480
Minimum $40.43 $14,758
Community $41.55 $15,167
Work Centers $36.31 $13,253
Probation and Parole $2.81 $1,026
(FY11 Appropriated Budget: $462,141,777)
Lunch and Learn Diversity Series
1. OLDER AMERICAN Diversity Series
1920’s display
2. ASIAN AMERICAN Diversity Series
Ranjini Mathew, Meena Rastogi, Mercy Panicker, Reverend Dr. A. Kosby Muthalaly, Thejus Thomas, James Eyadiel, and Sam Sangaran
3. BLACK HISTORY Diversity Series
Students from the Marcus Garvey Leadership School
4. American Disability Diversity Series
Traci Prince, Director, Student Assessment Center and Program Development, Oklahoma School for the Deaf
5. HISPANIC HERITAGE Diversity Series
Annette Marzett, Kimberlee Tran, Jill Hinkston, and Faye Tucker
6. NATIVE AMERICAN Diversity Series
John Kemble, Ponca Tribe, and Kathy Davis, Ponca/Chickasaw Tribers
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Executive Staff
lead
leadership
The capacity to lead others
command
An act or instance of guiding
direction
management
guidance24 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONSEXECUTIVE STAFFOrganizational ChartEXECUTIVE ASSISTANTFIELD OPERATIONSAssociate DirectorEXECUTIVE ASSISTANTADMINISTRATIVE SERVICESDeputy DirectorCOMMUNITY CORRECTIONSDeputy DirectorCOMMUNITY SENTENCING &OFFENDER INFORMATION SERVICESDeputy DirectorTREATMENT &REHABILITATIVE SERVICESDeputy DirectorINTERNAL AFFAIRSAdministratorEMPLOYEE RIGHTS & RELATIONSAdministratorEXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONSAdministratorGENERAL COUNSEL'S OFFICEGeneral Counsel DIRECTOROklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 25
Pam Ramsey serves as Executive Assistant and is responsible for providing administrative support to the Director and ensuring the administrative day to day operations of the office, which includes communication and interaction with legislative leadership, government entities, the public, and executive and senior level personnel; handling of sensitive and confidential information; preparation of reports and correspondence; coordination of special projects and activities, and other duties to assist the Director in carrying out his responsibilities. She also serves as the liaison to the Oklahoma Board of Corrections.
The Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections is the agency’s chief executive administrator and is responsible for the overall management and administration of the agency. The position provides the leadership and vision for the agency and is appointed by the Oklahoma Board of Corrections. The Director’s Office is comprised of the Director, an Administrative Assistant and two Executive Assistants. Other positions that directly report to the Director are as follows: Associate Director of Field Operations, Associate Director of Administrative Services, Deputy of Community Corrections, Deputy Director of Treatment and Rehabilitation Services, Deputy Director of Community Sentencing, Administrator of Internal Affairs, General Counsel, Civil Rights Administrator, and Administrator of Executive Communications.
Justin Jones
Director
Pam Ramsey
Executive Assistant
Director’s Office
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Employee Rights and Relations
Elvin Baum
Administrator
Neville Massie
Executive Assistant
Neville Massie is an Executive Assistant to the Director. Her primary responsibility is to serve as the agency’s liaison with members of the legislature, legislative staff, other governmental agency employees; as well as external civic and professional organizations.
Ms. Massie monitors legislation that may impact the department, solicits legislative initiatives from agency Executive Staff and represents the department at legislative committee meetings. She provides regular legislative status reports to the Board of Corrections, department Executive Staff and Upper Management staff.
In an effort to increase legislators knowledge and understanding of agency operations and issues, she coordinates facility tours for legislators and their staff.
Executive Assistant
The primary focus of the Employee Rights and Relations Unit (ERRU) is to serve the employees of the agency by providing technical expertise regarding the department’s affirmative action plan and assistance in adherence to employ­ment
related rules/ regulations, policies, procedures, laws, and agency practices. The unit provides training and develop­ment
to all employees and supervisors on Civil Rights rules, regulations, policy procedures and laws, aids in conflict reso­lution,
provides mediation information, and assists in resolving issues and conflict informally.
The Unit investigates formal discrimina­tion
grievances which come under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sex­ual
harassment, Americans with Disabili­ties
Act complaints, cultural diversity and other related issues. In addition, the Unit assists all facility Affirmative Action Committees with problem solving, train­ing,
current information and updates. In addition, ERRU have written articles for “Inside Corrections” pertaining to Work­place
Violence and “Stress.” By writing these articles, the unit has the opportu­nity
to keep staff informed and aware of workplace issues.
The unit consists of team members, Joyce Perry, Civil Rights Administrator I, Kim Moon, Secretary V, and Elvin Baum, Civil Rights Administrator, and is avail­able
to any staff member and/or members of the public who may have questions or in need of information pertaining to the services provided.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 27
Executive Communications
Joyce Jackson
Administrator
General Counsel
Michael T. Oakley
General Counsel
The Office of Executive Communications serves as the central point of contact for information about the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and its facilities to the media and the general public. The mission of the Office is to provide accurate, and timely information to build public support and enhance public awareness, while promoting positive change.
This office is responsible for media relations, various informational publications and reports, to include facility brochures, fact sheets and the production of the Department’s quarterly magazine, Inside Corrections. This also includes the planning and implementing of special projects and numerous training events.
The Office of Executive Communications is responsible for the Department’s historical archives, the production of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections History Book and the implementation of Leadership Academy, which is the nation’s first citizen’s academy for corrections.
This office also provides a variety of communications services to the staff as needed. The Office of Executive Communications staff is creative and proficient at problem solving and generating communications that engage and inform various audiences.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Guide for Family & Friends
• Historical documentation project from the Oklahoma State Peniten­tiary
Museum with the Oklahoma Historical department
• Establishing Twitter on the webpage
• Developing and producing the first department Yearbook
The Office of General Counsel acts as the primary liaison with the Attorney Gen­eral’s
office in matters of civil litigation when the agency or its employees are sued. The Office represents the agency at Merit Protection Commission hearings and Risk Management, oversees the sub­mission
of agency administrative rulings until finalized by the Office of Admin­istrative
Rules in the Secretary of State’s office responds to Offender Lawsuits (assigned by the Attorney General’s Of­fice),
reviews all private prison contracts, assists in gathering information for the Attorney General’s Office, reviews all for­mal
discipline action, assists employees in preparing for depositions and trial and gives legal advice to agency upper man­agement
as needed.
The Administrative Review Unit is re­sponsible
for reviewing, investigating and responding to offender misconduct and grievance appeals, which are submit­ted
to the director for final review. This review is considered to be the last step in the internal administrative process. Of­
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The Internal Affairs Investigation Unit is responsible for conducting both procedural and criminal investigations under the authority of the Director. Investigations encompass matters concerning offenders, employees and other identified criminal activity which impacts correctional operations. During CY 2010, the Investigation Unit was assigned 194 investigations and 70 preliminary Inquires. The unit completed 282 total investigations presenting 60 cases to the District Attorney of jurisdiction for the filing of criminal charges. As a result of their assignments staff also completed 33 forensic computer audits and 13 polygraphs.
The Fugitive Unit is comprised of agents dedicated to the apprehension of DOC escapees and offenders who have chosen to abscond parole supervision. Agents are also called upon to assist Probation and Parole Officers with the apprehension of offenders with a violent history as well as to assist the US Marshal’s Violent Crime Task Forces. In January 2010, the DOC lifetime fugitive list identified 85 total DOC fugitives. During CY 2010, the fugitive hotline added 173 escapes (144 escapes from community corrections, 29 from minimum security with no escapes from medium or maximum security) and 57 offenders who absconded parole. Assigned agents apprehended 119 DOC escapees and parole absconders while 112 additional fugitives were apprehended by various law enforcement agencies across the nation. The assigned agents assisted Probation and Parole Officers with the apprehension of 59 offenders and assisted the US Marshal Task Force with the apprehension of 67 fugitives. Additionally, this unit completed 19 out of state transports.
The Intelligence Unit is responsible for continuous collection, evaluation, collation and analysis of raw information into meaningful intelligence for correctional action. The Intelligence Unit also registers offenders as Security Threat Group members. To date, 1,627 offenders are registered. The unit develops on-line training available to all staff, trains at the DOC pre-service academy, produces a monthly Intelligence Bulletin and has conducted training at numerous facilities/districts as well as outside law enforcement agencies.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
In 2010, the office of Internal Affairs through the association with the International Association of Cold Case Investigators, joined with Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Oklahoma State Medical Examiner’s Office, Tulsa Police Department and the Oklahoma City Police Department to help find relatives of missing persons that have not donated DNA.
The purpose of this program is twofold; assist in identifying unidentified human remains located across the nation and to assist love ones of missing persons by attempting to collect DNA from a blood relative. These family DNA samples, referred
Internal Affairs
Johnny Blevins
Internal Affairs
fenders are required to exhaust their administrative remedies prior to fil­ing
litigation in the court system. The review conducted at both the facility and departmental level assists in preventing unnecessary litigation. Hundreds of offender letters are re­ceived
in Administrative Review every year with a response forwarded for each one received. This unit is also respon­sible
for conducting training for all staff involved in the disciplinary process, and continually conducts pre-service train­ing
in the disciplinary and grievance processes. The unit serves as a contact point for field staff, family members and legislators who have questions regarding the department's disciplinary process and grievance process.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 29
The Division of Administrative Ser­vices
consists of the following units:
• Departmental Services
- Finance and Accounting
- Evaluation and Analysis
- Building Maintenance
- Business Office/Document and Mail Services
• Information Technology
• Personnel
• Contracts and Acquisitions
• Training and Staff Development
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
PERSONNEL
20 Year Retirement
and Voluntary Buyout
July 1, 2010, marked the 20th anniversary of the agency’s Hazardous Duty (20-Year) Retirement Plan for Correctional Officers, Probation and Parole Officers, and Fugitive Apprehension Agents. A Director’s News Update was issued on June 20 reminding employees that according to Oklahoma Statute, contribution at the higher rate (8%) was for a maximum of 20 years. Following that, the employee must return to the OPERS standard contribution rate of 3.5%, which would result in a net increase to their monthly take-home pay.
Identifying affected employees proved to be a manual task, as no automated reports were available from OPERS to identify the employees to be converted each payroll period.
Staff in the central Personnel and Information Technology units spent
Administrative Services
Linda Parrish
Deputy Director
to as “Family Reference Samples” are then sent to the University of North Texas.
The University of North Texas Center for Human Identification has the responsibility to receive DNA samples from unidentified persons as well as from family members of missing persons, process those samples, and upload the DNA profiles into the National DNA Index System (NDIS). In the NDIS, profiles from missing and unidentified persons across the United States are searched against one another in an attempt to make identifications. It is important to know that DNA profiles from family members are only searched against unidentified persons in the NDIS, and are not searched against the profiles of unknown criminal suspects. If a family member resides outside the State of Oklahoma, arrangements can be made to have his/her DNA collected at a location close to home.
The family member who volunteers to have their DNA collected is re­quired
to sign a permission form. The family member will then be met by a local officer, who swabs the in­side
of their cheek; this process takes about 10 minutes. Officers then note information on the missing person. If a police report has already been taken, information about that report will be important. If no police report has been taken, officers will asked for the missing person’s full name, date of birth, tattoos, dental information, broken bones, scars, social security number and any circumstances sur­rounding
the time the person went missing. A DNA search will then be completed on all current unidenti­fied
remains as well as any unidenti­fied
remains which may be received in the future. 30 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
several months developing reports and researching time/leave and payroll records. As anticipated, the first month for conversion (July) proved to include the most employees with 75. To date, a total of 142 employees have been returned to the standard retirement contribution rate.
During calendar year 2010, the agency processed a total of 253 Voluntary Buyouts (VOBOs). The first group (Spring 2010) was funded by the department and included 60 employees. This VOBO did not require that employees be retirement-eligible; resignations were accepted for those employees who wished to participate and receive the severance benefits.
The VOBOs offered for July and December 2010 were funded by the Voluntary Buyout Reimbursement Revolving Fund authorized in HB 2363. In order to qualify for this buyout, employees had to be full-retirement eligible (with no reduced benefit) as of the VOBO date designated by the agency. This resulted in a additional 193 VOBO retirements.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Network Expansion and Improved Security
Network bandwidth expansion was completed in 2010 for all 17 institutions, all Oklahoma City locations and selected Community Corrections Centers. This expansion enabled DOC to implement or increase the use of the following applications and functions:
• Video Conferencing
• Electronic Health Records
• Remote monitoring of facilities
• On-line prescriptions
• Offender Banking System
The improvement in the network has resulted in more efficient operations, maximum utilization of personnel (medical, escort, etc.) increased use of distance learning, efficiencies in parole board hearings and savings in fuel costs.
In addition, security was improved with the implementation of encryption of laptops and flash drives. New procedures and equipment for secure access to DOC resources were put into place. The annual information security audit resulted in the best rating in the history of the audits. Information security awareness was also stressed through education, facility audits, and e-mail blasts of information security tips.
CONTRACTS AND ACQUISITIONS
On-line Posting of Solicitations
The development and implementa­tion
of the system for online posting of in-house competitive solicitations on the DOC website has had the big­gest
impact on the purchasing process during calendar year 2010. During 2010, the Contracts and Acquisitions Unit developed a standardized solici­tation
template that incorporates nec­essary
terms and conditions to ensure compliance with purchasing statutes. The template provides a standardized format for all in-house solicitations, which eliminates confusion and frustration on the part of vendors. Along with the development of the template, the contracts and Acquisi­tions
Unit also worked with the In­formation
Technology division to establish the technical requirements and process for posting all of the in-house solicitations in one location on the DOC website. This allows a centralized location for vendors to go to and see all current DOC in-house solicitations. The website also allows them to download and print the so­licitation
documents if they are in­terested
in responding to a particular solicitation. Prior to this online sys­tem
being developed, DOC Buyers would have to print and then fax or mail out the entire solicitation pack­age
to each suggested or potentially interested vendors. The new system has made the process much more ef­ficient
and eliminated direct printing and paper costs.
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICES
Accounts Payable and Auditing
Accounts Payable staff scan all vouchers and invoices into the PeopleSoft accounting system. This replaces the previous assembly system in which all vouchers and the original invoices had to be attached, folded, batched and sent to the Office of State Finance daily.
The Internal Audit Unit scheduled and conducted 60 audits during the period of July 2010 to April 2011. Audit planning and risk assessment utilizes key performance indicators Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 31
such as ratio analysis, trending and other auditing tools and techniques available to measure economy, efficiency and effectiveness of key areas of agency operations.
TRAINING AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT
Relocation of Training Academies
The Oklahoma Correctional Training academies at Wilburton and Norman were closed and relocated to the Department of Public Safety in Oklahoma City in May of 2010. Office space at DPS had to be totally renovated prior to occupancy. This was accomplished utilizing inmate labor with supervision by training staff at a nominal cost to the agency. All furniture, equipment, files, etc. were moved from Wilburton and Norman to Oklahoma City. The total move was accomplished in one month by training staff at minimal cost to the agency. The move also required a revision to training schedules in order to accommodate the limited training and dormitory space while continuing to meet the needs of the agency.
Additionally, as part of the contract with DPS, the training unit was tasked with opening and operating the kitchen/dining hall at DPS to provide meals for DOC and DPS trainees. Funds generated from these meals help defray DOC’s cost for office, classroom and dormitory space.
Classes held at the academy since the move to DPS include:
• Correctional Officer Cadet classes
• Pre-Service for non-uniformed staff
• Self Defense Instructor Development
• Probation and Parole Pre-Service
• Instructor Development for CPR and First Aid
• Basic Instructor Development/Training for Trainers
• Case Management
• Performance Management Process
The closing and relocating of the two training academies was accomplished with a significant reduction in training staff due to staff retirements during this period of time. Although 14 staff left the agency, the remaining staff continues to provide quality training programs and customer service to the agency. Reorganization is on-going and will continue in 2011 with the goal of ensuring continued development of staff and optimum class offerings.
Treatment and Rehabilitative Services
The Division of Treatment and Re­habilitative
Services is responsible for the provision of medical and mental health services for all offenders incar­cerated
in the Department of Cor­rections.
Medical and mental health staff is assigned to all facilities to en­sure
appropriate access to these ser­vices.
The Division maintains four infirmaries and three mental health units.
The Programs Unit oversees all of­fender
programs to include drug and alcohol treatment and adult educational services. Educational services include literacy, adult ba­sic
education, GED, and college courses. Drug and alcohol treat­ment
programs include cooperative agreements with the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, as well as RSAT programs funded by grants through the Dis­trict
Attorney’s Council. Career and Technical training programs allow offenders the opportunity to acquire
Deputy Director
Kenny Holloway32 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
work skills and Reentry programs focus on the offender’s employment, housing, treatment aftercare, and other services vital to successful re­turn
to the community.
Religious and Volunteer services pro­vides
oversight and coordination of the many volunteers who provide religious and program services to the offender population. These volun­teers
form a critical partnership with the Department of Corrections pro­viding
thousands of hours of support each month. The Victim Services unit is committed to assisting vic­tims
of crime by providing informa­tion
related to the custody and status of offenders who are incarcerated or under the supervision of the agency.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
DOC continues to experience dra­matic
increases in numbers and acu­ity
levels of incarcerated mentally ill persons. To address these increases with reduced resources, DOC men­tal
health services have implemented the following:
• The DOC and DMHSAS have partnered in innovative ways to re­duce
high recidivism rates of seri­ously
mentally ill offenders. The two agencies have entered into a data sharing agreement that is the first of its kind in the nation. This agree­ment
provides the efficient sharing of clinical information to facilitate cost-effective continuity of care. In addition, DMHSAS has entered into an agreement wherein DMH­SAS
discharge case managers are of­ficed
on DOC mental health units and serve as integral members of the reentry treatment teams. DMHSAS has also contracted evidence-based services from community mental health centers that provide connec­tion
and transition services to dis­charging
mentally ill offenders.
• The DOC has sustained and improved two innovative projects that were approved and federally funded by the Governor’s Transformation Board in FY10. The Correctional Crisis Resolution Training Program has successfully trained over 120 facility and community correctional officers in methods needed to deescalate crisis situations with mentally ill offenders. This program will be expanded to include key upper management professionals as well as line officer from facilities and community corrections. The Peer Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 33
Recovery Support Specialist Pilot Program trained offenders within facilities to serve as role models of successful recovery and as support for offenders at a time when staff are not in the facility.
Through collaborative efforts with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, interventions and discharge planning for offenders with serious mental ill­ness
has helped to reduce the return rate of this offender population from 41.8% for FY06 discharges to 36.6% for FY07 discharges.
The Oklahoma Department of Cor­rections
was awarded $750,000 from the US Department of Justice, Bu­reau
of Justice Assistance’s Second Chance Act State Demonstration Program for Secure Approaches to Effective Reentry (SAFER) Okla­homa
to create a transitional reentry program for high risk male offenders returning to Oklahoma County. The program has served over 100 offend­ers
since April 1, 2010. The pro­gram
addresses cognitive restructur­ing
needs, life skill development and requires offenders to participate in a victim impact class. Offenders have the opportunity to address substance abuse needs and acquire vocational skills through Career Tech Programs. Services are also available in the com­munity
to ensure a smooth transition following release from incarceration.
The Department operates a fully ac­credited
high school within the Okla­homa
prison system. Despite budget and staff reductions, 2,371 offend­ers
participated in GED prep classes and 1,028 received their GED. Also during FY10, 2,454 offenders partic­ipated
in Literacy classes and 2,503 offenders participated in ABE classes.
The DOC continues to operate three Faith and Character Community programs at Oklahoma State Refor­matory,
Mabel Bassett Correctional Center and Dick Conner Correc­tional
Center. During fiscal year 2010, 270 long-term offenders suc­cessfully
completed the program.
The Department of Corrections’ Pro­grams
Unit designed a web-based reentry resource guide to assist case management staff in developing pre-release plans for offenders. The re­source
guide contains active links to resources and forms that assist of­fenders
in accessing services in the community. The resource guide can be accessed at: http://www.doc.state.ok.us/newsroom/publications/Reen­try_
Resource_Guide.pdf
The web-based program participa­tion
tracking database is a real time, online application developed by Pro­grams
Unit staff to gather statewide programmatic attendance informa­tion.
The application tracks offender programmatic activities, including type of program, start and end dates, and the manner in which an offender terminates a program. Attendance data is validated through the Offend­er
Management System (OMS). Pro­grammatic
data is shared throughout the agency and is used for a myriad of analysis and information sharing purposes, including survival analysis, program effectiveness, real time re­ports,
outcome measures, grant deci­sions
for program placement, depart­ment
and facility profile reports, and much more. To date, over 130 staff responsible for reporting program­matic
data have been trained on this application statewide. Oklahoma DOC tends to set the standard na­tionally
in correctional best practices and is the ONLY Correctional Agen­cy
utilizing a real time, web-based application for program attendance tracking.
The electronic health records system was fully implemented at all Depart­ment
of Corrections medical units. This program allows each offender’s medical records to be entered and monitored electronically. The system interfaces with the agency’s pharma­cy
vendor, allowing all prescription medications to be ordered electroni­cally.
The most recent component released is an interface with Diag­nostic
Laboratories of Oklahoma. This allows not only for the lab to be ordered electronically, but for the re­sults
to be reported back to the clini­cian
via the electronic health record system. This system has resulted in improved efficiencies of medical staff.
Collaboration continues with the Oklahoma Health Care Author­ity
to contain the health care costs of offenders admitted to non-DOC hospitals. This allows for the maxi­mizing
of state resources by drawing down federal dollars for inmates who were admitted to the hospital. Since this project was implemented, the savings realized to the state have ex­ceeded
$5 million.34 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
The Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services Division administers the provisions of the Oklahoma Community Sentencing Act (22 O.S. §988.1-.24). Positioned between probation and prison on the criminal justice continuum, Community Sentencing provides the courts an innovative punishment option for non-violent offenders. Assessment, supervision, and treatment are combined in a manner that directly confronts criminal behavior and protects public safety.
In each county, a planning council, a group of citizens and elected officials specified by law or appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district, plans the local Community Sentencing system and with the assistance of the Community Sentencing Division locates treatment providers and resources to support the local system. The partnerships among the Department of Corrections, the local Community Sentencing systems, and the contractors providing services for participating offenders characterize this “¢ents-able” community punishment sentencing option.
The division is also responsible for the development and maintenance of COMIT, the offender information management software supporting case planning linked to identification of criminogenic needs, the Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN), and a web based vouchering system for offender treatment services. In March 2010, Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services assumed responsibility for the grants administration unit.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Community Sentencing reached a milestone of 10 years of statewide operation.
• The Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN) system was enhanced to provide notification regarding the status and location of offenders under community supervision.
• The grants administration unit successfully pursued continuation funding for all 2009 grants as well as for two new awards. Under the 2010 Second Chance Act Demonstration grant, a pilot reentry program was funded. The SMART Adam Walsh Act Implementation grant provided digital fingerprint equipment in probation offices for the registration of violent and sex offenders.
Community Sentencing and Offender Information Services
Deputy Director
Sharon Neumann
Highlights
On February 22, 2010, production of the movie “Heaven’s Rain” began at OSP. This is a film on former Senator Brooks Douglas in relation to his family’s disaster many years ago.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 35
Field Operations36 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONSFIELD OPERATIONSOrganizational ChartDIVISIONS OF INSTITUTIONSDeputy DirectorSAFETY ADMINISTRATIONAdministratorOPERATIONAL SERVICESChiefPRIVATE PRISON & JAIL ADMINISTRATIONAdministratorFEMALE OFFENDER OPERATIONSDeputy DirectorPROCEDURES & ACCREDITATIONAdministrator ASSOCIATE DIRECTOROklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 37
The Division of Field Operations is comprised of Female Offender Opera­tions,
Institutions, Operational Services, Private Prisons and Jail Administration, Procedures and Accreditation, Safety Administration, and Dietary Services.
These entities provide direct supervi­sion
of all agency institutions, to in­clude
both male and female offenders at minimum, medium, and maximum security, and death row, as well as female offenders under community corrections supervision; three contract private pris­ons
housing Oklahoma male offenders and oversight of the remaining three pri­vate
prisons which contract for out-of-state offenders; in addition to offenders in contract county jail programs. The division also oversees classification and population, Central Transportation Unit (CTU), sentence administration and of­fender
records, sex offender registration, Agri-Services, Oklahoma Correctional Industries, and construction and main­tenance.
Field Operations Administrative staff work closely with members of the leg­islature
and their staff, other state agen­cies
and law enforcement entities, as well as members of the public to respond to questions and provide information on agency-related matters and offender spe­cific
concerns.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The Field Operations Division strives to provide effective leadership and oversight to all of the divisions and units under its purview. Numerous division achievements will be highlighted within these entity’s accomplishments.
Two Field Operations division staff were tasked with conducting Facility Compliance Reviews of all minimum, medium and maximum security facilities, as well as Female Offender Community Corrections Centers. These reviews were commissioned by the Associate Director and designed in an effort to look at not only critical facility operations, but also routine matters in an ongoing challenge to ensure compliance with statutes, policies, and procedures. Several best practices were identified that have been shared across facilities. The first round of compliance visits was completed in late 2010, and the second round is currently underway.
At the request of the Associate Director, a new business plan was developed that will, in effect, redefine the mission of the Agri-Services Unit. One of the components of the business plan is to process garden vegetables in a more efficient manner. Prior to the business plan, for example, Howard McLeod Correctional Center grew a substantial amount of potatoes that were utilized by the facility and shared among the other facilities. This operation contained one obstacle that was unavoidable by the old process; there was a significant amount of spoilage of the potatoes due to the large quantity being harvested in a short time period. In the new business plan, the unit’s focus will be on growing the amount of vegetables required to feed the offender population, and distributed as needed.
Field Operations
Edward Evans
Associate Director
Field Operations38 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
SOLUTIONS INITIATIVE SUMMIT
INCARCERATION OF OKLAHOMA WOMEN
Oklahoma City • April 30, 2010
1. Christie Tutt, TEEM, Tony Zahn, The Education & Employment Ministry, Drew Edmondson, Attorney General, Roland Watts, TEEM
2. Peggy Thompson, Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women, and Patricia Presley, Oklahoma County Court Clerk
3. Jari Askins, Lieutenant Governor
4. Mary Fallin, U.S. Congress
5. Dr. Rebecca Kennedy, Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women
1
8
7
6
4
2
3
5
9
6. Felicia Collins-Corriea, CEO, YWCA, Tulsa
7. Sheila Harbert, Girl Scouts Beyond Bars, Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma
8. Mary Walker, Chair, Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women
9. Joy Thomas, Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, and Yolanda Galloway, female panelist representing Project M.E.N.D.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 39
Female Offender Operations40 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONSFEMALE OFFENDER OPERATIONSOrganizational ChartEDDIE WARRIOR CORRECTIONAL CENTERWardenHillside Community Corrections CenterDistrict SupervisorKate Barnard Community Corrections CenterDistrict SupervisorAltus Community Work CenterDistrict SupervisorFEMALE OFFENDER COMMUNITYCORRECTIONS & RESIDENTIAL SERVICESMABEL BASSETT CORRECTIONAL CENTERWardenRELIGIOUS ANDVOLUNTEER SERVICESAdministrator DEPUTY DIRECTOROklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 41
Laura J. Pitman, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
Female Offender Operations
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections established the Division of Female Offender Operations in December 2008. This division faces a unique challenge. While the division is responsible for all operational issues associated with the oversight of female offenders from reception through reentry at two correctional centers, two community corrections centers, one community work center, and two contract residential centers, the division also has a parallel mission. The division’s parallel mission is to “Reduce Oklahoma’s female incarceration rate to at, or below, the national average while protecting the public, the employees, and the offenders.”
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• The division continued its efforts on educating stakeholders through partnerships with other external organizations including the George Kaiser Family foundation, Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women, and the Oklahoma Women’s Coalition. Events such as the Complex Dialogues Summit in January 2010, the incarceration of Oklahoma women Solutions Initiative Summit in April 2010, Oklahoma Bar Association 2010 Annual Meeting, the series of five (5) Summer 2010 Judicial Regional Workshops entitled, “Children Are Why We Are Here,” and countless other presentations focused on driving positive change in policy in order to address the challenge of 42 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
women’s incarceration. Through the division’s collaborative efforts with other stakeholders, the department has received and renewed several grants to assist with the division’s mission.
• House Bill 2998, authored by Representative Kris Steele, was passed into law during Fiscal Year 2010. The legislation creates pilot programs, funded by private donations and state funds, to provide diversion and reentry programs to allow non-violent parents to receive community-based services.
• On August 18, 2010, a chapel dedication ceremony was held at the Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center. The chapel was the first to be constructed at Oklahoma state prisons by World Mission Builders, a non-profit ministry that has built churches around the world since 1980. The chapel was built in 118 days utilizing private money and labor. More than 40 volunteers from six states camped outside the facility to work on the project. The chapel has 4,800 square feet with a 175-seat auditorium, a baptistery, three classrooms, two offices and a library.
• On June 30, 2010, Back Office Support Systems (B.O.S.S.), under a contract with OCI, opened a telemarketing operation at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center. B.O.S.S. is headquartered in Michigan and operates under the Private Industry Enhancement (PIE) program. B.O.S.S. started operations with one shift of 16 offender employees.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 43
Eddie Warrior Correctional Center
Warden
Mike Mullin
Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Cen­ter
(EWCC) is on the original site of the Indian Mission School Haloche Industrial Institute in Taft, Okla­homa.
In 1909, Stephen Douglas Russell founded the Deaf, Blind, and Orphan Institute (DB&O) which housed deaf, blind, and orphaned children. From 1909 until 1961, the DB&O Institute was self-sufficient. The state operated children’s homes under many different names until May of 1986 when legislative action transferred the facility to the Depart­ment
of Corrections. The facility be­came
the George Nigh Staff Devel­opment
Center handling the depart­ment’s
pre-service and in-service staff training. During the 1988 special legislative session, called to address prison overcrowding, the center was designated as a minimum security prison for female offenders.
EWCC is named after Dr. Eddie Walter Warrior, business manager for the DB&O Institute.
EWCC houses minimum-security fe­male
offenders. The facility is divided into two general population units and the Regimented Treatment Program (RTP), a 12-month military-style program with substance abuse and domestic violence components added to address addiction and family vio­lence
issues. The RTP unit is housed in one of the original buildings built for the DB&O Institute in 1909.
The Helping Women Recover program is a 60-bed, gender-specific program designed to meet the treatment needs of female offenders who are addicted to alcohol or drugs. The program is funded through private grant funds and, in its current form, has been in operation since October 2009. The program offers trauma informed substance abuse treatment, early childhood development classes, domestic violence classes, cognitive restructuring, anger management and relapse prevention. The program utilizes a combination of full and part-time licensed therapists who provide 11 hours of weekly group
Opened: 1988
Location: Taft
Capacity: 783
Gender: Female
Security: Minimum44 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 45
Pictured at left: The building of a new prison chapel located at Eddie Warrior Correctional Center at the halfway mark.
Right: An offender at the Eddie Warrior Correctional Center working on leather crafts.
therapy along with individual therapy and treatment.
In January 2010, the department contracted with the University of Cincinnati to evaluate the program using Evidence Based Correctional Program Checklist (CPC). The objective of the assessment is to conduct a detailed review of programming and services offered to offenders and to compare the practices with the research literature on best practices in corrections. The Helping Women Recover program was the first gender-specific program in the country to rate in the “highly effective category” in a correctional setting. To date, approximately 200 offenders have successfully completed the program.
EDDIE WARRIOR
Eddie Warrior was appointed business manager for the Deaf, Blind, and Orphan Institute by Governor Roy Turner. Warrior was later promoted to principal and subsequently to superintendent of the Taft School System in 1961. The E. W. Warrior Junior High School was dedicated in his honor in 1979. He retired in February, 1979, after 18 years of service. He died in June, 1979. 46 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Mabel Bassett Correctional Center
Warden
Millicent Newton-Embry
Opened: 1974
Location: McLoud
Capacity: 1,136
Gender: Female
Security: Minimum/Medium/Maximum
The Mabel Bassett Correctional Center is the only maximum secu­rity
institution for women in the state of Oklahoma. The center was originally located in northeast Oklahoma City, adjacent to the Department of Corrections Ad­ministration
Building. Opened as a community treatment center in January 1974, the center was changed to a medium security facility in 1978. In 1982, Mabel Bassett was converted to include maximum security. Offenders assigned to Mabel Bassett range from minimum security to Death Row.
Additionally, Mabel Bassett Cor­rectional
Center supervises the security of all Department of Cor­rections
offenders requiring hospi­talization,
through an agency con­tract
with the OU Medical Center. The unit also supervises the hold­ing
area where offenders from all Department of Corrections facili­ties
are held awaiting medical ap­pointments
at the Medical Center.
Mabel Bassett Correctional Cen­ter
houses the Assessment and Reception Center for females incarcerated in the state of Okla­homa.
Mabel Bassett Assessment and Reception Center (MBARC) is a maximum security unit that receives females sentenced to prison by the courts. During the reception period that ranges from approximately ten to thirty days, staff determines, through various Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 47
assessments, which Department of Cor­rections
facility the offender will be as­signed
to and what program criteria they meet.
In 2009, Mabel Bassett Correctional Center entered into a collaborative ef­fort
with the VERA Institute of Justice, New York, in its Family Justice Project, an initiative to develop tools to improve family and social networks, community involvement, and government resources relative to successful re-entry.
Relational inquiry tools were developed through offender interviews and admin­istrative
staff work groups which were implemented by case management staff in 2010.
In November 2010, Margaret diZerega, Family Justice Director of Training and Technical Assistance, and Lily Brent, Family Justice Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator, conducted fol­low-
up interviews and distributed a sur­vey
to approximately 150 offenders, as well as provided updated training to staff in the use of the relational inquiry tools.
MABEL BASSETT
Mabel Bassett served as the third Commissioner of Charities and Corrections. She was a reformer and a diligent lobbyist like her predecessor, Kate Barnard. During her tenure, Ms. Bassett worked to establish and maintain standards for juvenile and adult correc­tional
facilities, and also the state’s mental institutions. She was responsible for establishing the State Pardon and Parole Board in 1944 in an effort to create a more equitable system for offenders to be reviewed for a pardon, leave, or parole. She was also involved in building the facility that once housed women at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary with funds raised through legislative appropriation. Among her other accomplishments, Ms. Bassett fought for the statute, enacted by the Eighth Okla­homa
Legislature, making wife and child desertion a felony. She was also responsible for the Industrial School for Negro Boys at Boley, Oklahoma, which is known today as the John Lilley Correctional Center. The Club Women of Oklahoma recog­nized
her by appointing her to the State Federation of Women’s Clubs. For her outstanding services for the betterment of man­kind,
she was inducted into Oklahoma’s “Hall of Fame” by the Oklahoma Memorial Association on Statehood Day (Novem­ber
16) in 1937.
Highlights
The incarceration of Oklahoma Women Solutions Initiative Summit (Oklahoma SIS) was held April 30, 2010. The summit, sponsored by the Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women, Oklahoma Women’s Coalition, and Oklahoma Department of Corrections provided state leaders, lawmakers, and citizens from across the state the opportunity to come together for the purpose of identifying solutions related to the incarceration of women in Oklahoma.48 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
The Hillside Community Correc­tions
Center was originally opened as the Mabel Bassett Community Treatment Center in January, 1974 and changed to a medium security facility in 1978. In 1982, the center was converted to include maximum security offenders.
On May 1, 2003, the Mabel Bas­sett
Correctional Center relocated to the former private prison facility in McLoud, Oklahoma. The former facility was then converted to the Hillside Community Corrections Center.
Project Mend is a Girl Scouts of America program designed to help strengthen the parent-child rela­tionship
by bringing offenders and their daughters and sons, ages 5 to 17, together to participate in troop projects. Strengthening this bond also reduces recidivism rates. The program encourages the pairs to bond physically and emotionally over crafts, singing and other activi­ties.
The mothers will also attend parenting classes and planning ses­sions
to organize activities for their daughters. The program also en­courages
the girls and their mothers to discuss issues such as drug abuse and teen pregnancy.
Hillside Community Corrections Center
Opened: 2003
Location: Oklahoma City
Capacity: 249
Gender: Female
Security: Community
District Supervisor
Sharon Harrison
Female Offender Community Corrections
and Residential ServicesOklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 49
The Kate Barnard Community Treatment Center was opened in June, 1977. The center is housed in a former motel located in northwest Oklahoma City. The facility is a u-shaped two story building which houses the residents and staff. Food service is located in front of the main building, with the maintenance shop and storage area located be­hind
the main building.
KBCCC provides offenders with an opportunity to seek, obtain and maintain employment in the community prior to release through the work release.
The 80+ percent of incarcerated women who have been victim­ized
by domestic violence and/or sexual assault prior to incar­ceration
presents a great need for knowledge, empowerment, and safety planning that the YWCA Oklahoma City’s Do­mestic
Violence for incarcerated Women’s program fulfills. The nine-week program prepares of­fenders
to reenter the commu­nity
to live safe, successful, and fulfilling lives for themselves and their children. The pro­gram
served 631 incarcerated women in three facilities during 2010.
Kate Barnard Community Corrections Center
Opened: 1977
Location: Oklahoma City
Capacity: 160
Gender: Female
Security: Community
District Supervisor
Sharon Harrison
Female Offender Community Corrections
and Residential Services
Kate Barnard
Kate Barnard was a key figure in the history of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. She was elected the first Commissioner of the Department of Charities and Corrections during a time that women were not allowed to vote in Oklahoma. Ms. Barnard, concerned about numerous complaints regarding the treatment of Oklahoma offenders, made an unannounced visit to Lansing, Kansas. Upon her return to Oklahoma, Ms. Barnard set out to terminate the contract for prison services with the state of Kansas and started an effort to build the first Oklahoma prison. From the time of her election in 1907 until the end of her two terms of office in 1915, Ms. Barnard got 30 statutory laws passed through the Oklahoma Legislature, a record that few legislators could boast about or compete with even today. 50 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Altus Community Work Center
FACILITY
OPENED
LOCATION
CAPACITY
GENDER
SECURITY
Altus
1993
308 W. Broadway
Altus, OK 73521
68
Female
Community
1. Renee Watkins, Administrator, Private Prison and Jail Administration
2. Brian Thornburgh, District Supervisor, Southwest District Community Corrections
3. J.C. Watts, Former U.S. Congressman
4. Terry Martin, Deputy Warden, Jess Dunn Correctional Center, Chairman Fundraising
5. Kristin Timms, Assistant District Supervisor, Union City CCC, and Phil Gilstrap, Deputy Warden, Joseph Harp CC
6. Leo Brown, Religious and Volunteer Services
7. Kevin Murphy, Executive Secretary, USDWA, Arkansas
8. Larry Lipscomb, Associate Warden, Jill Durskey, Deputy Warden, and Charles Higgins, Deputy Warden (R), Iowa Department of Corrections.
United States Deputy Warden Association (USDWA) Annual Conference 2010
Sheraton Hotel • Oklahoma City • August 8-13, 2010
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Institutions52 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONSDIVISION OF INSTITUTIONSOrganizational ChartCHARLES E. "BILL" JOHNSON CCWardenHOWARD MCLEOD CCWardenJACKIE BRANNON CCWardenJAMES CRABTREE CCWardenJESS DUNN CCWardenJIM E. HAMILTON CCWardenJOHN H. LILLEY CCWardenJOSEPH HARP CCWardenRECEPTION CENTERLEXINGTON ASSESSMENT &WardenMACK ALFORD CCWardenNORTHEAST OKLAHOMA CCWardenOKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARYWardenOKLAHOMA STATE REFORMATORYWardenR.B. "DICK" CONNER CCWardenWILLIAM S. KEY CCWardenDEPUTY DIRECTOROklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 53
The Division of Institutions provides oversight, direction, and supervision to the fifteen state operated male facilities housing minimum, medium, and maximum security offenders.
The division is responsible for ensuring that the facilities under its jurisdiction meet the agency mission of protecting the public, the employees, and the offenders by providing a safe, secure, and healthy environment in which to work and live.
This office provides oversight of fiscal management and ensures facilities effectively manage their budgets.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• A new water tower was completed at Mack Alford Correctional Center improving the fire protection capability and water pressure at that medium security facility.
• Security camera systems were completed at Oklahoma State Reformatory and Mack Alford Correctional Center. These systems have improved security monitoring at both facilities. These systems contain a large amount of video storage that is useful for investigatory purposes.
• An assessment of the vehicle fleets within the Division of Institutions was conducted. Authorized vehicle numbers were reduced by a total of seventy-one.
Institutions
Deputy Director
Bobby Boone54 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
Opened: 1995
Location: Alva
Capacity: 566
Gender: Male
Security: Minimum
Warden
Janice Melton
Charles E. “Bill” Johnson Correctional Center
The Charles E. “Bill” Johnson Correctional Center (BJCC) is the newest of the 17 facilities operated by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. the facility houses 550 male, felon drug offenders, ages 18-40. The minimum-security facility consists of six metal buildings, four modular buildings, a brick building inside the compound and seven buildings to include maintenance, warehouse, auto mechanics,wellness center, storage,work crew tool area, sawmill, greenhouse and a single-story dormitory under construction outside the perimeter fence. Inside the compound are the administrative offices, medical facilities, a dining hall, the education building, laundry, four program buildings, three housing units and a chapel. On September 5, 1995, the facility received the first trainee for the Regimented Treatment Program.
In 2010, the facility was given the news that it would be expanding. The CareerTech Skills Center and the multi-purpose building were closed to begin the renovations of the building into housing units.
DELAYED INCARCERATION PROGRAM
In August 2004, BJCC established 50 beds for eligible first time youthful offenders sentenced to Delayed Incar­ceration
Program. In March 2010, the count rose to approximately 220 offenders. The delayed incarceration program is to provide youthful of­fenders
the tools to lead a successful life in society and to introduce pro-social behaviors and attitudes that may enhance their ability to have positive relationships in their lives. Trainees are given assessments to determine placement into specific groups. The groups that are facilitated by drug and alcohol counselors are: Cage Your Rage, Life Without a Crutch, Commitment to Change, Thinking for a Change, Moral Reconation Therapy, Cognitive Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 55
Behavioral Relapse Prevention, Straight Ahead, and Reentry.
REGIMENTED TREATMENT
PROGRAM (RTP)
The primary mission of BJCC is RTP. Due to the program design as a high structure unit, BJCC was built with medium security standards with double-razor wire fencing. The RTP consists of three phases beginning with 9 weeks of high structure treatment. The follow­ing
6-9 months include participation in Therapeutic community (TC), cognitive and behavioral counseling, education, substance abuse treatment, and reentry programs in addition to public work projects. Public works projects include Department of Transportation crews and several other city, county, and state projects. Aftercare is provided for one year to RTP graduates upon discharge or release to suspended sentence or parole.
THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
The TC is highly structured program of behavior modification. The trainees of each floor make up a “family” with a hierarchical system. The hierarchy in a TC provides operational structure. The structure of a TC is similar to that of a small town. The civic type structure improves accountability and more ef­fectively
addresses tasks. The offenders, working under the supervision of staff, operate the TC.
Trainees are accountable for monitoring their behaviors as well as the behavior of family members in respect to family, unit, facility, and department rules. Issues of accountability are correlated to issues of similar nature that could occur outside the facility.
REENTRY
Trainees nearing the completion of this phase of the program begin attending reentry programming designed to focus their attention to the demands of reen­tering
society.
Before a program completion is award­ed,
the trainee must complete an exit in­terview
and have an approved discharge summary/reentry plan.
MEDICAL SERVICES
BJCC is staffed with a medical team which provides 24 hour nursing care to the facility. A psychological clinician proves mental health services as a clinical oversight for the cognitive and substance abuse programs. Dental and additional psychiatric and acute care medical ser­vices
are presently provided by neighbor­ing
correctional facilities.
EDUCATION
All trainees at BJCC who have not completed their secondary education are required to attend education class­es.
Trainees can obtain certification in Literacy and Adult Basic Education as well as a General Equivalency Diploma. College courses are available through NWOSU, located in Alva.56 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
CHARLES E. “BILL”
JOHNSON
Charles E. “Bill” Johnson, for whom the facility is named, was a catalyst in the pursuit of the correctional center designed to impact drug offenders. When he learned about the possibility of such a program being placed in a community in Oklahoma, Mr. Johnson recruited his friends and business associates to help in the pursuit of making the facility a re­ality.
Unfortunately, Mr. Johnson died on February 18, 1995, at the age of 66, and was unable to see the completion of the facility he had worked so hard and faithfully to bring to his hometown.
FOOD SERVICE
An integral part of BJCC’s support ser­vices
is the Food Service Unit which pre­pares
three meals per day and food for special events. With cooperation from the U.S. Department of Labor, BJCC food service staff created an apprentice­ship
program that enables selected train­ees
who complete the program to earn journeyman’s status in the culinary arts.
RELIGIOUS AND VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
Volunteers are an important part of the RTP and are a valuable resource in pro­viding
necessary and court-ordered ser­vices
to offenders. Approximately 100 volunteers bring valuable experience to this facility enabling BJCC to better assist offenders return to a productive, drug free life.
DELAYED SENTENCING PROGRAM
In August 2004, BJCC established 50 beds for youthful offenders sentenced to the Delayed Sentencing Program as overflow for the WSKCC program. In March 2010, BJCC’s mission was expanded to include housing the entire Delayed Sentencing Program for the agency which increased the program to approximately 250 delayed incearcerates.
The program receives funding from the Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) which is administered through the D.A. Council and is currently staffed with four alcohol/drug counselors with a fifth counselor soon to be added. The delayed sentencing program provides young offenders aged 18-22 the tools to lead a successful life in society and to introduce pro-social behaviors and attitudes that may enhance their ability to have positive relationships in thei rlives. The delayed incarcerates are given assessments to determine placement into specific groups. The groups that are facilited by drug and alcohol counselors are: Cage Your Rage, Life Without a Crutch, Commitment to Change, Thinking for a Change, Cognitive Behavior and Substance Abuse counseling, Straight Ahead, Parterners in Parenting, and Re-entry.
Highlights
1940 The McAlester News-Capital makes the first announcement of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary’s First Annual Rodeo, advertised as the biggest “behind the walls” rodeo in the world, scheduled to be held October 12-13, 1940.
1972 The use of the automation to process information for the Department of Corrections began in 1972. The first application was a simple listing of inmates.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 57
Dick Conner Correctional Center
Opened: 1979
Location: Hominy
Capacity: 1,196
Gender: Male
Security: Medium
Warden
Greg Province
The post-OSP riot master plan included a medium security facility to be constructed in the Tulsa area. It was eventually decided that the facility would be built just north of Hominy, Oklahoma, within the boundaries of the original Osage Indian Reservation. Originally, the facility was to be named the “Hominy Medium Security Facility.” It was next decided that the facility would be named Jess Dunn Correctional Center in honor of the former OSP warden killed in an escape attempt. However, a 1977 Joint Senate-House Resolution renamed the facility, for the third and final time, the Dick Conner Correctional Center. The facility’s namesake is R. B. “Dick” Conner, a former local Sheriff of Osage County and former OSP warden. The facility was built for $12.8 million. Dick Conner Correctional Center received its first offenders in August, 1979, and reached its original design capacity of 400 during the spring of 1980.
OFFENDER WORK PROGRAM
Dick Conner Correctional Center provides job opportunities for both medium and minimum-security offenders. A significant amount of the minimum-security offenders are assigned to the Prisoner Public Work Program crews.
ACADEMIC AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
Education programming at Dick Conner Correctional Center consists of an education system that begins with basic literacy through Adult Basic Education. This program then progresses to a GED program with the availability of college courses with grants, GI bill, youthful offenders, Native American, or self-pay offenders. All offenders lacking a diploma upon arrival are tested 58 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
for a Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE). Vocational training is not currently available for the offender population.
ACADEMIC PROGRAMMING
Adult Basic Education (ABE) and General Education Development (GED) classes are provided at the Dick Conner Correctional Center. The DCCC education department has a success rate on the State GED Test that has exceeded 92% for the last three (3) years. The ABE/GED programs serve approximately 550 offenders per year.
LITERACY TUTOR TRAINING
Dick Conner Correctional Center (DCCC) has recognized, and is committed to, the plight of the illiterate offender. Emphasis has been placed on recruitment and training of tutors. These tutors teach pre - Adult Basic Education (pre-ABE), the Laubach Way to Reading, and provide supplemental tutoring for General Educational Development students with problems in specific areas. Laubach Tutor Training certifies and enhances our literacy training at DCCC.
POST SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Post-secondary educational opportuni­ties
for offenders at DCCC are avail­able
from recognized post-secondary schools for students who have a high school diploma or GED. The educa­tion
counselor provides administrative service such as monitoring for testing and videotape availability. Grants are available for offenders who qualify.
THINKING FOR A CHANGE
• A cognitive behavioral theory model
• Cognitive restructuring concepts require a systematic approach to identifying thinking, feeling, beliefs, attitudes, values and targets critical social skills.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT (SAT)
A program designed to assist the offender with relapse prevention and substance abuse issues
Alcoholics Anonymous
A 12-step, self-help group for addressing alcohol addiction
Narcotic Anonymous
A 12-step, self-help group for offenders with drug addiction problems
Curriculum Instructional Materials Center (CIMC) Basic Life Skills
A program designed for individuals and families with limited resources and low educational attainment who desire basic information about managing money and other resources
Additional Classes
• Life Skills
• STD/HIV Classes
•Faith Based Reintegration Programming
Individualized treatment and program needs are determined by the offender’s case plan.
OKLAHOMA CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES (OCI)
It is the policy of Dick Conner Correctional Center that Correctional Industries operate on a basis comparable to private industry within the restraints imposed by the prison industrial environment. Correctional Industries provides work and training for offenders and reduces the cost of incarceration to the State of Oklahoma. Dick Conner Correctional Center has over 150 job opportunities for offenders to be employed in the facility’s industries operation.
MEDICAL CARE
Offenders at Dick Conner Correctional Center have access to medical care and emergency care 24 hours a day.
DICK CONNER
R. B. “Dick” Conner started in law enforcement as the Sheriff of Osage County in 1932. He was later appointed warden at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in August 1943 by Governor Rob­ert
S. Kerr. He retired after four years and returned to work as a sheriff’s deputy in Tulsa County. Conner died in 1955 at the age of 63 after almost 30 years of service in corrections and law enforcement. Dick Conner Correctional Center is a me­dium
security facility located in Hominy, Oklahoma. It opened in 1979.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 59
Opened: 1973
Location: Atoka
Capacity: 616
Gender: Male
Security: Minimum
Warden
Bruce Howard
Howard McLeod Correctional Center
HMCC is a minimum security insti­tution
located approximately 30 miles southeast of Atoka, Oklahoma. Con­struction
of the institution began in November, 1961, and was completed a year later. The facility was constructed by offenders from Stringtown Correc­tional
Center (currently Mack Alford Correctional Center), who were super­vised
by Stringtown Vo-Tech instruc­tors.
The center is a 5,000 acre site. HMCC was under the direction of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary until July, 1973.
In 1978, a name change was imple­mented
by the Oklahoma State Legis­lature,
from McLeod Honor Farm to Howard McLeod Correctional Center. The building now known as west dorm was built from Oklahoma State Peni­tentiary
brick and lumber saw milled from trees harvested from state land. HMCC is the only correctional center in Oklahoma that has ever utilized a saw mill to produce lumber.
OFFENDER PROGRAMS
The HMCC Career Tech Skills Center gives offenders the opportunity to ac­quire
job skills in the areas of Heavy Equipment Operation, Welding, and Precision Machining Technology and Masonry Program. Career Tech also aids released offenders in job place­ment
in order to lessen the chance of re-offending.
Various self help programs, including Thinking For A Change and Life Link, are available from the unit staff and the chapel. The facility Psychological Cli­nician
is the provider for a Thinking For A Change class.
AGRI-SERVICES
The Agriculture Services Farm Program staff consists of a Farm Manager IV and two Farm Managers. The staff super­vises
approximately 19 offenders, who work in the following areas: Livestock, Tractor/Farm Implements, Firewood and Brush Cutting, Utility Farm Crews (fence repair, hay hauling, etc.)
Approximately 1,800 acres of facility property are covered with timber. An ongoing program to selectively cut the timber is in place that will allow more 60 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
of the land to be grazed by cattle. Ap­proximately
2,927 acres are presently being used as pasture land. Approxi­mately
819 head of cattle are being managed by Agriculture Services
ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG
In 1994, while training HMCC’s track­ing
dogs, Sgt. Bobby Cross found an extremely large bone north of the fa­cility,
on state property, that had been uncovered by rain. The bone was sent to the University of Oklahoma and was determined to be a dinosaur bone. Pa­leontologists
from the university were sent to HMCC and have discovered 14 individual dinosaur skeletons of four different dinosaur species to in­clude
Tenontosaurus, Deinonychus, Acrocanthosauris, and Sauroposeidon which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest land dwelling dinosaur. Also found while digging dinosaur bones was a small mouse sized mammal from the same era that was name Paracimexomys-crossi after COIV Bobby Cross. The skele­tons
from the mammals and dinosaurs found on HMCC’s land are displayed in the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History in Norman.
RELIGION
The HMCC religious program is su­pervised
by a full time chaplain who strives to accommodate all offenders in the practice of their faith. He is aided by approximately 182 volunteers who serve a valuable function in the delivery of religious services.
MEDICAL
A health services unit is responsible for providing general medical care and emergency treatment of the offender population. Dental care is provided on-site. Psychological services are pro­vided
by a Psychological Clinician III who provides individual counseling to approximately 215 offenders each month.
EDUCATION
The Lakeside School offers learning opportunities for the offender popula­tion,
regardless of their academic level, at no cost to the offender. The Educa­tion
Department at Howard McLeod Correctional Center is staffed by four Correctional Teacher I’s. At this time classes ranging from Literacy to GED are offered. Placement is determined by TABE testing new arrivals at LARC or at HMCC to determine grade-level performance. College courses are also available through Rose State College for offenders who qualify.
FACILITY GARDEN
The HMCC Facility Garden staff con­sists
of an Institutional Farm Manager III and 1-2 Correctional Officers (as available). The staff supervises approxi­mately
90 offenders. The offenders who work in the HMCC garden perform a variety of tasks which include plant propagation in a greenhouse that was constructed by offenders. These plants are then used for production in the fields. Offenders prepare the soil for planting, apply fertilizer, plant the seeds or plants, and perform daily mainte­nance
of the crops after planting.
Some of the daily tasks include cultivat­ing,
hoeing, mowing equipment main­tenance
and repair, as well as irrigation of the crops. The final step in the pro­cess
is harvesting of the produce. All of the vegetables are picked and packaged by hand using offender labor. The pro­duce
is then hauled from the field to storage units or loaded on trucks to be sent to other facilities.
HOWARD MCLEOD
The Howard McLeod Correctional Center (HMCC) was named after Howard C. McLeod, who started in corrections at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, Oklahoma. He later served as chief sergeant and assistant deputy at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary from 1940 to 1955. He was appointed warden at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and served in that capacity from 1955 to 1959. McLeod’s concern for meaningful labor for offenders led to the purchase of an “Honor Farm” outside Farris, Oklahoma, in Atoka county. That farm, known as the McLeod Honor Farm, later became the Howard C. McLeod Correctional Center. McLeod died in 1959 at the age of 63.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 61
Jackie Brannon Correctional Center
Opened: 1985
Location: McAlester
Capacity: 737
Gender: Male
Security: Minimum
Warden
Emma Watts
In one sense, Jackie Brannon Correc­tional
Center (JBCC) was the third state correctional center, originally opening in 1927. But it operated as a trusty unit of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, on OSP grounds, until being officially es­tablished
as a stand-alone minimum security institution on July 1, 1985. The facility is named in honor of Jackie Brannon, who began his correctional ca­reer
in 1961 as a Correctional Officer at OSP. In 1981, he was promoted to Dep­uty
Warden of the OSP Trusty Unit, in which capacity he served until his death in 1984. It is this same trusty unit, since expanded, that bears his name.
JBCC is located on 1,300 acres in the northwest section of McAlester, Okla­homa.
The facility has three housing units that house 737 inmates. The fa­cility
sends out Prisoner Public Works Program crews to assist with work in the city, county, and with the Depart­ment
of Transportation. There is also a six month Substance Abuse Treatment Program for offenders who meet the en­rollment
requirements. Burial rites for all indigent Oklahoma offenders are per­formed
at JBCC.
Substance Abuse Treatment program is an intensive cognitive treatment pro­gram
for offenders who have a docu­mented
history of substance abuse prob­lems.
This program is six months in duration, with sessions running five (5) days a week, five (5) hours a day. Each six month cycle consists of a maximum of 30 participants. The program has two cycles per year. The program is staffed by both Master’s level psychological counselors and certified treatment coun­selors
from the private sector. During each cycle, participants are exposed to individual and group counseling ses­sions
covering behavioral modification, effects of chemical abuse, goal setting, and relapse prevention.
Education Department offers classes in literacy, adult basic education, GED and on-site college course work on a part-time basis. If requested, offenders may be allowed to attend the GED pro­gram
on a full-time basis. The Educa­tion
Department also offers a Life Skills 62 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
department through the Medical Ser­vices
Division. Training for the peer tutors includes two days of classes. Upon completion of the class they receive one college credit hour. The purpose of this program is to give offenders a chance to learn and un­derstand
the facts concerning HIV, AIDS, STDs, and violence. They learn to prevent infection, protect themselves and be aware of what types of behaviors put them at risk.
Agri-Services – Averages 100 of­fender
workers who, under the su­pervision
of staff, milk an average of 180 cows per day; operate a feed mill which produces 6,000 tons of complete horse, swine, dairy, beef and poultry feed per year; and pro­cess
60,000 dozen eggs per month. There is also a transportation unit at JBCC which is responsible for transporting hay, feed, livestock, milk, eggs and meat to institutions throughout the state.
Meat Processing Center - This center employs 60 offenders and provides all of the beef, pork and lunchmeat items required by the master menu to feed the state’s in­carcerated
population. The meat processing center also includes a Meat Cutting Apprentice program. This Apprentice program is 3 years in duration and successful comple­tion
results in the student being certified by the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Apprenticeship.
Dairy Operation - currently milks approximately 180 cows twice per day producing approximately 650,000 pounds of 2% milk per year. This product is distributed to all Department of Correction facilities.
Religious Services are offered at the JBCC Chapel seven days per week. On Saturdays and Sundays, multi­ple
services are offered. Services are available for the mainstream Chris­tian
religions as well as for Muslim, Seventh Day Adventist, Jehovah Wit­ness,
House of Yahweh and Native American. The faith-based programs of Quest for Authentic Manhood and Celebrate Recovery are also
offered.
JBCC has approximately 160 vol­unteers
entering the facility month­ly.
These volunteers are involved in education and religious services that are provided to the offender popula­tion
at the facility. JBCC is the host facility for providing the orientation training to all new volunteers in the Southeastern part of the state. This training is completed on a quarterly basis.
Health Care Department is a clinic that provides Medical, Mental Health and Dental care. JBCC conducts a daily triage of “sick call” requests where appointments are scheduled 5 days a week. Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 63
Opened: 1982
Location: Helena
Capacity: 969
Gender: Male
Security: Minimum
Medium
Warden
David Parker
James Crabtree Correctional Center
James Crabtree Correctional Center is located in Helena, Oklahoma on the grounds of the old Connell Agri­culture
College. The institution has a history that precedes statehood. The facility was originally established in 1904, and has served the people of the state of Oklahoma as a county high school, a junior college, an orphanage, and a Department of Human Services training school for boys. On May 24, 1982, the former Helena State School for Boys was transferred to the ODOC as the James Crabtree Correctional Center.
This facility was named in honor of James Crabtree, a former warden.
Since the transfer of this facility to the Oklahoma Department of Correc­tions
the James Crabtree Correctional Center has undergone three major construction phases. It currently is composed of eight housing units, and houses medium and minimum secu­rity
offenders. James Crabtree Cor­rectional
Center is the only medium security prison in Oklahoma that pri­marily
operates as an open dormitory style facility.
EDUCATION
Offenders may complete ABE, GED, and college degrees.
BRIDGE PROJECT
A team of JCCC staff recognized that James Crabtree Correctional Cen­ter
had an offender idleness problem within the facility. We house approxi­mately
804 offenders at medium secu­rity.
Out of the total number, approxi­mately
200 offenders were without institutional jobs. This facility houses offenders who are 35 years of age and older. Therefore, we find ourselves with a large group of elderly, sick and disabled offenders, which compounds the idleness problem. Idleness, among offenders, can lead to disruptive behav­iors,
a feeling of worthlessness and de­pression.
We needed to seek out ways of employing these people, specifically targeting elderly, sick and disabled.
The Bridge Project Mission statement is to instill pride and self-worth in offenders through jobs
which in turn aid our community.
The Bridge Project gives offenders the time and materials to build and 64 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
James Crabtree Correctional Center held its third annual fishing day with 23 residents and 17 staff members from the Northern Oklahoma Resource Center of Enid (NORCE), a residential and habilitative facility, also classified as an intermediate care facility for persons with developmental disabilities.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 65
produce items for the needy in the community. They crochet afghan blankets for the elderly in surrounding care centers and produce toys for children, especially during the holiday seasons. In addition, offenders donate their products to families who have suffered loss from fire, weather or financial devastation; there is never a cost to the recipients or their caregivers. From these ideas the “Bridge Project” began.
JCCC’s Bridge Project is so named because the offenders wished to “bridge the gap between society and the offenders” recognizing all of the hardship and loss through crimes had caused and their desire to give back to society. Bridge Project has, and continues to be, a success, because the employee team took a recognized problem and worked with a selected offender group to reach a solution which benefited all concerned.
Medical Services—general medical as well as dental and mental health services are available to offenders.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Services for all recognized religions are provided.
AGRI-SERVICES
The Agri-Services Department has numerous operations. This depart­ment
farms approximately 1,520 acres of land producing small grains, alfalfa and vegetables. The grains are used to over-seed pasture in other farming operations throughout the state. Production of both warm-season and cool-season grasses is a major responsibility of the farm division. Hay crops are grown on an as needed basis. Approximately 50 offenders are needed to maintain the 150 head of mother cows that produce seed stock for seven Agri-Services units, which use Angus, Glebvieh and Beefmaster genetics.
The Agri-Services Food Processing Center manufactures a wide vari­ety
of food products to be used to feed the offender population. Our corndog factory supplies the entire agency with product. Recently ex­panded
gardens at JCCC are pro­viding
a variety of fresh vegetable to include tomatoes, onions and bell peppers. Cantaloupe, watermelons, potatoes, carrots, and broccoli are received from other facilities. All are processed at our plant and distrib­uted
throughout the agency. As of the end of 2010, 148,256 pounds of corndogs, 9,360 pounds of broccoli, 10,360 pounds of carrots, 9,925 pounds of potatoes, 56,780 pounds of chopped onions, 11,100 pounds of tomato sauce, 29,440 pounds of fresh cabbage, 6,740 pounds of chopped cabbage, 5,820 pounds of green beans, 12,180 pounds of greens, 3,560 pounds of tur­nips
and 8,970 pounds of assort­ed
melons had been produced. 315,000 onions were planted for the 2011 spring garden. 10,000 tomato seeds were taken to the Timberlake schools.
CellFor is the world’s leading in­dependent
supplier of high tech­nology
seedlings to the global forest industry. Using plant bio­technology,
which is the use of biological processes to manufac­ture
products, CellFor identifies and produces genetically superior conifer seedlings without genetic modification. CellFor corporate headquarters is based in Vancou­ver,
British Columbia, with the primary research and develop­ment,
laboratory and production facilities located north of Victo­ria,
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employes approximately 200 offenders at JCCC.
JAMES CRABTREE
James Crabtree started in corrections at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary as an officer. His career was temporarily in­terrupted
by the Korean War in 1950. He returned to corrections in 1952 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. In July 1973, Crabtree was appointed As­sociate
Warden of the Ouachita Voca­tional
Training Camp. He was named Warden of the Ouachita Correctional Center in 1978, a position he held until he retired in 1981. 66 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
The Jess Dunn institution was origi­nally
constructed in 1930 and used as a mental hospital for black patients only. Through the years, the institu­tion
has been used as a tuberculosis sanitarium, a juvenile girl’s facility, and a juvenile co-ed home. In April 1980, the facility was transferred from the Department of Human Services to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC).
At one time, Dick Conner Correction­al
Center was to be named after Jess Dunn, prior to legislative intervention. Thus, it seemed only logical to name this facility, the next acquisition subse­quent
to the Conner facility, after Jess Dunn. Jess Dunn served as warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary from 1938 until August 10, 1941, when he was killed during a shootout resulting from an offender escape attempt. Also killed were a sheriff’s jailer (a former OSP guard) and 3 of the 4 offenders involved in the escape attempt. The remaining offender was later executed for Jess Dunn’s murder.
The institution is located on approxi­mately
1,100 acres and is comprised of six major buildings that house residents and administration. Main­tenance
shops, OCI farm complex, laundry, vo-tech, supply, and other support operations are housed in other assorted buildings on the institutional grounds. Originally, the facility was co-ed with approximately 302 of its population being female. The ODOC no longer operates co-ed facilities.
Another interesting twist to JDCC is that it shares a warden and associ­ated
administrative staff with the Eddie Warrior Correctional Center (EWCC), a female facility. EWCC is a separate facility from the JDCC but they are separated by only a few hun­dred
yards. Together, they are known today as the Taft Unit. This merger occurred on January 1, 2001. The positions of business manager, human resource specialist, warden’s assistant, procedure officer and training officer also serve in a dual capacity at both facilities.
SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT PROGRAM (Male Facility)
The Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) is an intensive, cognitive-be­havior
program that consists of six (6) phases. Phase I is a 16-week educa­Jess
Dunn Correctional Center
Warden
Mike Mullin
Opened: 1980
Location: Taft
Capacity: 982
Gender: Male
Security: MinimumOklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 67
tional module offered by mental health employees and is mandatory for offend­ers
who have been convicted of a sex offense after November 1988. Phase I provides sex offenders with information designed to increase their knowledge and understanding of sexual abuse and to help motivate the offender to volun­teer
for additional intensive sex offender treatment. The program is comprised of a psychoeducation program with 36 hours of intervention strategies designed to inform sex offenders of pro-social be­liefs
and attitudes resulting in the offenders correcting certain defects or maladaptive be­haviors.
Phases II through VI are voluntary and designed to prevent additional sexually deviant and abusive acts.
AGRI SERVICES
The Agri-Services Division of the De­partment
of Corrections plays a vital role in enabling offenders to learn valuable job skills and work ethics. Approximate­ly
45 offenders are assigned to the 800 acre Taft Unit Agri-Services farm opera­tion
and perform many tasks to include welding, repairing fences, weed control and watching cattle. The unit also raises Beefmaster cattle as seed stock for seven (7) Agri-Services units, which use Beef­master
bulls. Beefmaster bulls are bred to Angus cows to produce heifers for the annual Beefmaster Southern Cross Sale held on the 2nd Saturday in March at the Taft Unit Agri-Services Unit.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
The mission of mental health services at JDCC is to improve the offender’s ability to manage their mental health concerns while building a supportive, recovery-oriented culture. The goal of services is to improve the offender’s abil­ity
to successfully manage mental health, behavioral and adjustment concerns by encouraging participation in psycho-educational classes and peer-to-peer sup­port
services in addition to traditional services of counseling and medication management. Mental health treatment staff are also actively involved in consul­tation
services with facility administra­tive,
security, medical and support ser­vices
to promote a culture of proactive identification and response to offender mental health concerns.
Correctional Recovery Support Services describes the model of mental health services that is used at Jess Dunn Cor­rectional
Center. Correctional Recovery Support Services uses traditional men­tal
health services of individual therapy and medication management. However, the model differs from traditional men­tal
health services in that it relies heav­ily
on psycho-educational classes and peer-to-peer support groups to teach fundamental strategies for recovery from co-occurring concerns of mental illness, substance abuse, trauma, and criminal thinking patterns. This model encour­ages
offenders to take personal responsi­bility
for wellness self-management and recovery by providing offenders with several options for service participation.
Jess Dunn Correctional Center has sev­eral
offenders who have become certified as Recovery Support Specialists. These men are trained to encourage and mo­tivate
offenders to participate in services and they represent the first group of of­fenders
in the nation who have become certified while incarcerated. Since the certification program began in 2010, the Recovery Support Specialists have helped to develop peer-to-peer support groups and psycho-educational classes as well as providing individual mentor­ing
and support to offenders who are dealing with mental health concerns. There are approximately 40 peer-to-peer support and wellness manage­ment
classes going on at JDCC each week with an average of 150 offend­JESS
DUNN
Jess Dunn served as warden of the Okla­homa
State Penitentiary from 1938 to 1941. Dunn was killed in a shoot out that resulted from an offender escape attempt on August 10, 1941. Jess Dunn Correc­tional
Center is a minimum security facil­ity
located in Taft, Oklahoma. It opened in 1980.68 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
ers choosing to participate in peer-to-peer services. Professional mental health staff are also actively involved in providing psycho-educational pro­grams
that promote wellness and recovery with a monthly average of 125 offenders enrolled in programs. These programs encourage devel­opment
of positive coping skills as well as provide incentives for earning achievement credits and maintaining positive adjustment.
Approximately 55% of the offend­ers
at JDCC have histories of mental health treatment involvement with 27% of offenders currently involved in treatment. Even though JDCC has a professional treatment staff of 2 full-time mental health staff and a psychiatrist who is available one day a week, mental health service contacts are in excess of 2,500 a month. The Correctional Recovery Support Ser­vices
model represents efficient and effective use of resources of encour­aging
offenders to learn positive self-management skills as they prepare for reentry into the community.
SEX OFFENDER PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM (SOPEP)
On March 31, 2010, due to state budget shortfalls, the Department of Corrections was forced to terminate the Sex Offender Treatment Program indefinitely. In wake of the termination of the Sex Offender Treatment Program, the Life Preparation Program (LPP) and the Sex Offender Psycho-Educational Program (SOPEP) were placed on the D-East Unit to fill the void left behind by the program. Continuing concern for Sex Offender Management and public safety demanded that issues of sexual deviancy be addressed.
SOPEP is an educational program de­veloped
to inform sex offenders about sexual abuse, sexual abusers, treatment concepts, interpersonal skill bulding, and treatment available in the com­munity.
The program is administered through mental health services of the Oklahoma Department of Correc­tions.
Material included in the pro­gram
represents 42 hours of classroom concepts that are often used when treating sexual offenders.
SOPEP is divided into seven topical sections and includes 21 modules. Each topical section addresses thera­peutic
concepts and philosophies, while individual modules highlight an array of themes which convey a more specific understanding of the section. Participants will be expected to read each module prior to the ses­sion
when that module will be dis­cussed.
The total duration of SOPEP is a minimum of four months.
HEALTH SERVICES
The facility provides medical, den­tal
and psychological services. Spe­cific
information concerning these services is provided during facility orientation. A $2.00 co-pay will be charged for each visit requested by the offender; however, offenders will not be refused health care because of their financial status.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
All offenders remanded to the custody of the Taft Unit facilities retain the right to choose their religious beliefs and to practice religious acts. Reli­gious
activities/services are offered for all denominations and coordinated by the facility chaplain and volunteers. Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 69
Opened: 1969
Location: Hodgen
Capacity: 706
Gender: Male
Security: Minimum
Warden
Haskell Higgins
Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center
The area now occupied by Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center, formerly Ouachita Correctional Center, dates back to 1933 when it served as the home of the Civil Conservation Corps. The facility grounds were later utilized by the U.S. Forestry Department and, in the early 1960s, by the Hodgen Job Corps.
The facility is located in Hodgen, Oklahoma on the northern edge of the Ouachita National Forest. The town of Poteau is approximately 28 miles to the North.
In 1969, the Federal Government made the decision to demolish the existing campsite, but the plan was delayed when legislation was spon­sored
by Senator James E. Hamil­ton
to introduce a better plan for the site. Camp Hodgen, as it was called then, was the first offender training facility in the U.S. offering vocational-technical training by the State Department of Vo-Tech Edu­cation
in cooperation with the State Department of Corrections.
In 1971, the first offender Vo-Tech students arrived at the facility. The JEHCC is the largest correctional vocational training program in the state. The Vo-Tech program has grown to a total of 8 different skill areas currently available at the facil­ity:
industrial electricity, air condi­tioning
and refrigeration, welding, building construction, masonry, building maintenance, industrial maintenance, transmission repair, front end/suspension and engine performance. Training in an aca­demic
enhancement program and a comprehensive reintegration pro­gram
is also provided as part of Ca­reer
Tech Skills Center. The state department of Career Technology Education provides training oppor­tunities
to all eligible offenders at no cost.
In addition to providing training opportunities for offenders, Ca­reerTech
also provides the Oklaho­ma
DOC and other state agencies, assistance with special construction projects and repairs on state vehi­cles.
This service has saved state, county and municipal agencies many valuable tax dollars for repairs 70 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
and preventative maintenance of pre­cious
agency resources. JEHCC has benefited immensely from having a CareerTech center on site. Several facility buildings have been built ei­ther
partially or entirely with skilled offender labor provided through the training programs.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION from basic literacy, through GED, to college level courses are provided by full time, state certified teachers. Approximately 50-75 offenders receive their GED at JEHCC each year. A leisure library provides an extensive collection of books and reference collection to meet the educational and recreational needs of the offender population. A recent facility renovation in the Academic Ed­ucation
building resulted in combin­ing
the Leisure Library with the facil­ity
Law Library and are currently both under one supervisor.
The MEDICAL UNIT provides clini­cally
appropriate and necessary medi­cal,
dental and mental health care for offenders at the facility. Psychological services provide individual and group counseling, crisis intervention, assess­ment
consultation and evaluation as requested by staff. Health care is deliv­ered
by 13 full-time staff.
FOOD SERVICE provides balanced nutritional meals to the offender popu­lation.
Three meals a day are served in a central dining facility with group din­ing.
The master menu is developed and reviewed annually by a licensed dieti­cian.
Seven staff members are employed within the unit. JEHCC has started a facility garden which provides various vegetables that help reduce food cost. Once planted, the total garden area covers approximately 5.57 acres. Veg­etable
production has exceeded 40,000 pounds.
RELIGIOUS PROGRAMS provide a schedule of services of various faiths, seven days a week. A faith based pro­gram
“New Life Behaviors” is provided weekly that stresses family and personal responsibility. A religious library is also provided.
JIM E. HAMILTON
Former Oklahoma State Senator, Jim Hamilton, served in the Senate from 1967 until 1976. In 1984, after an eight year absence from the legislature, he was elected to the State House of Representatives where he served until 1998.
The Ouachita Correctional Center was officially changed to the Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center, in honor of Senator Hamilton on December 10, 1998.
Highlights
1977
Female correctional officers were employed and allowed to work in male institutions.
2003
Oklahoma becomes the first correctional system in the nation to place offender records on the internet.Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 71
Joseph Harp Correctional Center
Opened: 1978
Location: Lexington
Capacity: 1,397
Gender: Male
Security: Medium
Warden
Mike Addison
The Joseph Harp Correctional Cen­ter
is a medium security institution located near the town of Lexington, in central Oklahoma. The facility officially opened on September 26, 1978, and received its first offenders two days later. The site of the facility had been used by the Navy as a firing range during World War II. After the war, the land was turned over to the Mental Health Department, which in turn transferred it to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 1971.
Joseph Harp Correctional Center is named in honor and memory of War­den
Joseph Harp who served as war­den
at the Oklahoma State Reforma­tory
from 1949 until 1969. Warden Joseph Harp was clearly an innovative leader and professional in the field of corrections. Under Warden Harp, Oklahoma State Reformatory was the first institution to establish a fully accredited academic High School be­hind
prison walls. Warden Harp rec­ognized
that one of the greatest needs of many offenders was a high school education. As early as 1950, Warden Harp proposed in a legislative report the need for: a Department of Cor­rections;
a merit system of employ­ment;
a statewide probation system staffed with competent officers who would make pre-sentence investiga­tions;
a reception center for all felons coming into a prison system; and a full time pardon and parole board.
DIVERSIFIED MARKETING, INC., AND BACK OFFICE SUPPORT SYSTEM
DMI provides telephone sales for products such as hunting equipment, t-shirts and nursing home supplies.
BOSS provides telephone sales for business long distance services. It is the newest offender work site at the facility.72 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
THINKING FOR A CHANGE
Thinking for a Change is a cognitive-behavioral based program. It consists of 22 lessons divided into three sec­tions.
The first section teaches cog­nitive
restructuring where offenders learn to change their habitual think­ing
in order to change their behav­ior.
The second section teaches social skills. Through demonstration and role-playing, offenders learn how to interact with others in a constructive manner. The third and final section of the program teaches problem solv­ing.
The skills learned in cognitive restructuring and social skills training are combined with a model of prob­lem
solving. Offenders then learn how to achieve their goals through means that are re­spectful
of others, avoid conflict, and that does not violate laws or rules.
B UNIT/DELAYED SENTENCE PROGRAM
B unit has a dual purpose of hous­ing
general population offenders and Delayed Sentence offenders. The Delayed Sentence program includes youthful offenders subjected to a brief period of incarceration by the judge, without formal sentencing. While on Delayed Sentence status, they are to complete programs and maintain clear conduct. If they are able to adhere to the criteria, the judge may release them with a sus­pended
sentence. If they are not able to, the judge may impose formal sentencing. Programs offered to the Delayed Sentence of­fenders
include Education, Thinking for a Change, Life Without a Crutch, and Life Skills.
G UNIT/INTERMEDIATE CARE HOUSING UNIT AND HABILITATION CENTER PROGRAM
G Unit was established in 1999 to increase medium security bed space. The unit holds 200 offenders, dou­ble-
celled, with G-1 housing the Habilitation Center Program (HCP) offenders and G-2 housing Interme­diate
Care Housing Unit (ICHU) of­fenders.
There are approximately 50 general population/resident assistant offenders throughout the unit. the HCP section provides services for of­fenders
with less than average intel­lectual
functioning and/or those who have deficiencies in adaptive behav­ior.
The ICHU section is a multidis­ciplinary
therapeutic environment for offenders diagnosed with severe mental illness.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Services provided include medica­tion
management, suicide preven­tion,
individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, and psycho-educational groups. Once an of­fender
is stable, the treatment team determines if the offender can re­turn
to general population or will be referred to the Intermediate Care Housing Unit.
The Habilitation Center Program (HCP) admits offenders with IQ Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook 73
JOSEPH HARP
Joseph Harp served as warden at the Oklahoma State Reformatory from 1949 until 1969. Warden Joseph Harp was clearly an innovative leader and professional in the field of corrections. Under Warden Harp, Oklahoma State Reformatory was the first institution to establish a fully accredited academic High School behind prison walls. Warden Harp recognized that one of the greatest needs of many inmates was a high school education.
As early as 1950, Warden Harp pro­posed
in a legislative report the need for: A Department of Corrections; a merit system of employment; a state­wide
probation system staffed with competent officers who would make pre-sentence investigations; a recep­tion
center for all felons coming into the prison system; and a full time par­don
and parole board.
scores below 70 and major deficits in adaptive functioning. Addition­ally,
other developmental disabilities and offenders with dementia or oth­er
cognitive impairments are served. The program provides training in life skills, job skills, pro-social behaviors, decision-making, functional read­ing
and math skills, and addresses criminal behaviors such as substance abuse and sex offenses. Individual psychotherapy, crisis management, suicide prevention, and medication monitoring are provided.
Because strong family and commu­nity
ties increase the likelihood that the offender will succeed after release, visits are encouraged.
Mental Health services provided to the general population includes medication monitoring, crisis man­agement,
suicide prevention, a nine-week Substance Abuse course, a 16-week course Sex Offender Psy­cho-
educational program (a modified course is offered for HCP offenders) and consultations with staff.
J UNIT/MEDICAL UNIT
J Unit was established in 2007 to pro­vide
housing for those meeting one of the following criteria: Dementia/Alzheimer patient; vision impaired/blind; wheelchair bound; uses walk­er/
crutches; 65 or older. There are four isolation cells for those with in­fectious/
contagious diseases such as tuberculosis. The unit is ADA com­pliant,
taking into consideration doors, drinking fountains, toilet and shower stalls, etc. There are 262 beds on this unit. Trained medical orderlies are offenders assigned to as­sist
the residents of this specialized unit, providing basic skills to assist those physically disabled.
EDUCATION SERVICES
The Education department includes academic education, library services and a future pre-employment train­ing
program. The academic pro­gram
includes literacy, special needs, ABE, GED, ESL, and college pro­grams.
Library services support a leisure library for offenders. Educa­tion
also includes a pre-release class for offenders related to general life skills and a program for offenders who are within a year of release who seek to be self-employed.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
These services are designed to help offenders meet their religious needs during their incarceration. This is accomplished in numerous ways by volunteers from various faith groups coming in to conduct regular re­ligious
services, and special events such as concerts and tent meetings under the tower; helping the Islamic community with Ramadan and the feasts; assisting when offenders have a death in the family; assisting with weddings; and arranging special ministerial visits.
OKLAHOMA CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES (OCI)
began operations at JHCC in 1979 with the manufacturing of furniture for state and local governments and non-profit organizations. Since that time, other service and manufac­turing
functions have been added. OCI employs eleven correctional industries staff and more than 250 offenders.
The furniture factory produces a varied line of office furniture includ­ing
desks, filing cabinets, bookcases, 74 Oklahoma Department of Corrections 2010 Yearbook
credenzas, and chairs. The records conversion department includes a remote data-entry operation, a batch-entry operation building data­bases
and a